Reporting sensitive information
21 Reporting sensitive information
A report under this part must not include information for the Legislative Assembly if the reviewer considers that disclosing the information would be contrary to the public interest because it could—
be an unreasonable disclosure of personal information about a person; or
disclose a trade secret; or
disclose information (other than a trade secret) having a commercial value that would be, or could reasonably be expected to be, destroyed or diminished if the information were disclosed; or
be an unreasonable disclosure of information about the business, commercial or financial interests or affairs of an entity; or
Note Entity includes a person (see Legislation Act, dict, pt 1).
prejudice the investigation of a contravention of a law; or
prejudice the fair trial of a person; or
prejudice relations between the ACT government and another government.
However, the report may include information mentioned in subsection (1) if the reviewer is satisfied that the substance of the information is public knowledge.
If, under subsection (1), the reviewer omits information from a report for the Legislative Assembly, the reviewer may prepare a special report for the relevant Assembly committee that includes the information.
The reviewer must give the special report to the presiding member of the relevant Assembly committee.
The presiding member must present the special report to the relevant Assembly committee.
A special report presented to the relevant Assembly committee is taken for all purposes to have been referred to the committee by the Legislative Assembly for inquiry and any report that the committee considers appropriate.
In this section:
relevant Assembly committee means a standing committee of the Legislative Assembly nominated, in writing, by the Speaker for this section.
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