Local Government (Water Services Preliminary Arrangements) Act 2024

Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements - Foundational information disclosure requirements - Determinations

46: Commission may exempt disclosure of commercially sensitive information

You could also call this:

"The Commission can keep some information secret if it's commercially sensitive, like business secrets."

The Commission can decide not to make some information public if it thinks that information is commercially sensitive. You can ask the Commission to keep this type of information secret, and they can agree to do so if they want. The Commission can also change or cancel this decision later.

The Commission gets to choose the conditions for keeping the information secret. They can make rules about what they will and won't keep secret.

If the Commission decides to keep some information secret, they have to keep a list of what they are keeping secret, and you can look at this list for free during their office hours. An exemption, which is when the Commission decides to keep something secret, is a type of secondary legislation, (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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Part 2Water services delivery plans and foundational information disclosure requirements
Foundational information disclosure requirements: Determinations

46Commission may exempt disclosure of commercially sensitive information

  1. The Commission may, on application, exempt a specified entity or class of specified entity, in respect of any information or class of information that the Commission considers to be commercially sensitive, from any obligation to publicly disclose that information as part of the requirement to disclose information under this subpart.

  2. The Commission may grant the exemption on any terms and conditions that it thinks fit.

  3. The Commission may vary or revoke any exemption.

  4. The Commission must keep a list of all current exemptions made by it under this section available for public inspection free of charge during normal office hours of the Commission at the offices of the Commission.

  5. An exemption, and any variation or revocation of it, made under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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