736Minister may make information or samples available to other Ministers

736 Minister may make information or samples available to other Ministers

The Minister may make documentary information or a petroleum mining sample available to—

(a) another Victorian Minister; or

(b) a Minister of the Crown in right of another State or of the Northern Territory; or

(c) a Minister of the Crown in right of the Commonwealth.

1 For protection of the confidentiality of information obtained by a Minister under this section, see section 737.

2 For protection of the confidentiality of a sample obtained by a Minister under this section, see section 738.

Subdivision 2—Information and samples obtained by a Victorian Minister

737 Protection of confidentiality of information obtained by a Victorian Minister

(1) This section restricts what a Victorian Minister may do with documentary information made available to the Victorian Minister under section 736.

(2) The Victorian Minister must not—

(b) make the information available to a person (other than another Victorian Minister, a Minister of another State or of the Northern Territory or a Minister of the Commonwealth)—

unless the Victorian Minister does so—