10Commercially confidential information

10 Commercially confidential information (1) A person may apply, in the approved form, to the NT EPA to have information: (a) otherwise required to be maintained on the register – withheld from the register; or (b) that may otherwise be provided to a person under section 115 – withheld from distribution to such a person, on the ground that it is commercially confidential information. (2) The NT EPA may, if satisfied that the information to which an application relates is commercially confidential: (a) withhold the information from the register; or (b) withhold the information from distribution under that section.

Waste Management and Pollution Control Act 1998 12 (3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), the NT EPA may: (a) place information on the register; or (b) distribute information to a person under section 115, if the information is in a form that retains its commercial confidentiality. (4) The onus of establishing to the satisfaction of the NT EPA that information to which an application relates is commercially confidential rests on the applicant under subsection (1).