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Petroleum Act 1923
sec.78BConfidentiality obligations
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### sec.78B Confidentiality obligations
The recipient must not disclose the information to anyone else, unless—
the information is publicly available; or
the disclosure is—
to someone whom the recipient has authorised to carry out the authorised activities for the recipient’s 1923 Act petroleum tenure or coal or oil shale mining tenement; or
made with the information-giver’s consent; or
expressly permitted or required under this or another Act; or
to the Minister.
The recipient may use the information only for the purpose for which it is given.
s 78B ins 2004 No. 26 s 46
amd 2005 No. 3 s 32
(sec.78B-ssec.1) The recipient must not disclose the information to anyone else, unless— the information is publicly available; or the disclosure is— to someone whom the recipient has authorised to carry out the authorised activities for the recipient’s 1923 Act petroleum tenure or coal or oil shale mining tenement; or made with the information-giver’s consent; or expressly permitted or required under this or another Act; or to the Minister.
(sec.78B-ssec.2) The recipient may use the information only for the purpose for which it is given.
- (a) the information is publicly available; or
- (b) the disclosure is— (i) to someone whom the recipient has authorised to carry out the authorised activities for the recipient’s 1923 Act petroleum tenure or coal or oil shale mining tenement; or (ii) made with the information-giver’s consent; or (iii) expressly permitted or required under this or another Act; or (iv) to the Minister.
- (i) to someone whom the recipient has authorised to carry out the authorised activities for the recipient’s 1923 Act petroleum tenure or coal or oil shale mining tenement; or
- (ii) made with the information-giver’s consent; or
- (iii) expressly permitted or required under this or another Act; or
- (iv) to the Minister.
- (i) to someone whom the recipient has authorised to carry out the authorised activities for the recipient’s 1923 Act petroleum tenure or coal or oil shale mining tenement; or
- (ii) made with the information-giver’s consent; or
- (iii) expressly permitted or required under this or another Act; or
- (iv) to the Minister.