53Assessment committee must disclose properly made submissions unless they are confidential

53 Assessment committee must disclose properly made submissions unless they are confidential

(1) An assessment committee must cause a properly made submission to be published on the Department's Internet site unless—

(a) the person who made the submission claims, when giving it to the committee, that the submission contains confidential information; and

(b) the committee decides that the submission contains confidential information.

(2) A properly made submission given to an assessment committee that has been claimed under this section to contain confidential information, and that the committee has decided contains confidential information, may be published if that information is omitted.

(3) If information is omitted from a properly made submission that is made publicly available by an assessment committee under subsection (2), a note to that effect must be included in the submission at the place in the submission from which the information is omitted.

(4) Despite anything to the contrary in this section, if requested in writing by the Planning Minister, an assessment committee must give a properly made submission (with any confidential information contained in the submission) to the Minister.