Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme Act 2018

The Secretary must make available to the public, on a website, the following information in relation to each person who is, or has at any time been, registered in relation to a foreign principal:

the name of the person and the foreign principal;

a description of the kind of registrable activities the person undertakes or undertook on behalf of the foreign principal;

any other information prescribed by the rules for the purposes of this paragraph.

Information that the Secretary is required to make available under subsection (1) and that is included in any of the following notices must be made available within 48 hours of being provided to the Secretary:

a notice given under section 35 (reporting disbursement activity), if the threshold or multiple mentioned in paragraph 35(1)(d) is reached in a voting period;

a notice given under section 36 (reporting on registration review when voting period begins);

a notice given under section 37 (reporting registrable activity (other than disbursement activity) during voting periods).

Other information that the Secretary is required to make available under subsection (1) must be made available within 4 weeks of it being provided to the Secretary.

However, the Secretary need not comply with subsection (1A) or (1B) if the Secretary is considering whether subsection (2) applies to the information.

Despite subsection (1), the website must not include information that the Secretary is satisfied:

is commercially sensitive; or

affects national security; or

is of a kind prescribed by the rules for the purposes of this subsection.

A registrant who considers that information is commercially sensitive can specify this when giving the information.

The Secretary must also make available to the public, on a website, the following:

each provisional transparency notice issued under section 14B, along with:

a written statement to the effect that a person whose interests are affected by the decision to issue the notice may, subject to the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024, apply to the Administrative Review Tribunal for review of the decision; and

if the notice becomes a final transparency notice under subsection 14C(4)—a written statement to that effect;

any variation or revocation of a transparency notice under section 14E, along with a written statement to the effect that a person whose interests are affected by the decision to vary or revoke the notice may, subject to the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024, apply to the Administrative Review Tribunal for review of the decision.

See also section 14H (review of decisions relating to transparency notices).

The rules may prescribe circumstances in which the Secretary is to remove publicly available information from the website.