Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Resource Management and Administration) Regulations 2025
192Meaning of permanently confidential information
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192 Meaning of permanently confidential information
(1) This section sets out the 4 situations in which documentary information is permanently confidential information.
Excluded information is permanently confidential
(2) Despite anything else in this Division, excluded information is permanently confidential information.
Note: Excluded information is defined in section 8.
Titles Administrator classifies as permanently confidential
(3) Documentary information given by a person to the Titles Administrator is permanently confidential information if the Titles Administrator considers the information to be:
(a) a trade secret; or
(b) information the disclosure of which would, or could reasonably be expected to, adversely affect the person’s business, commercial or financial affairs.
(4) Documentary information given by a person to the Titles Administrator is permanently confidential information if:
(a) when the information was given, the person notified the Titles Administrator, in writing, that the person classified the information as:
(ii) information the disclosure of which would, or could reasonably be expected to, adversely affect the person’s business, commercial or financial affairs; and
(b) the Titles Administrator did not give the person a written notice under subsection 194(1) disputing the classification.
Titles Administrator disputes classification and objection is in force
(5) Documentary information given by a person to the Titles Administrator is permanently confidential information if:
(a) when the information was given, the person notified the Titles Administrator, in writing, that the person classified the information as:
(ii) information the disclosure of which would, or could reasonably be expected to, adversely affect the person’s business, commercial or financial affairs; and
(b) the Titles Administrator gave the person a written notice under subsection 194(1) disputing the classification; and
(ii) the person has made an objection in response to the notice mentioned in paragraph (b), and the objection has not ceased to be in force under section 199.