30Department may supply information or documents

30 Department may supply information or documents

(1) The Department may, in its discretion, supply to the Authority information, or a document, that has been supplied to the Department in the course of its administration of a relevant program. (2) The supply of information or a document by the Department in accordance with subsection (1) shall not be taken to constitute an authorization or approval, for the purposes of the law relating to defamation or breach of confidence, of the publication by the Authority of the information, or of the document or its contents, as the case may be. (3) The supply of a document by the Department in accordance with subsection (1) shall not be taken to constitute an authorization or approval, for the purposes of the law of copyright, of the doing by the Authority of any act comprised within the copyright in:

(a) any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work;

(b) any sound recording, cinematograph film, television broadcast or sound broadcast; or

(c) a published edition of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work;

contained in the document. (4) Expressions used in paragraph (3)(a), (b) or (c) have the same meanings as in the Copyright Act 1968. (5) In this section, relevant program means a program administered by the Department that is declared by the Minister, by instrument signed by him, to be a relevant program for the purposes of this section.