Restrictions on disclosure of sensitive information
67 Restrictions on disclosure of sensitive information
In this section —
private sensitive information means sensitive information relating to a person who or that is not a State agency or public authority;
sensitive information means information that has been identified under section 22(3) as being the subject of a duty of confidentiality or secrecy or of a commercially sensitive nature.
This section qualifies section 66(1)(a) and (b).
Infrastructure WA must not make sensitive information publicly available and, without limitation, must not include sensitive information in the following —
a State Infrastructure Strategy;
a summary of a report given to the Premier under section 19;
a report under section 24;
advice or other reports or documents that are to be made publicly available.
The Premier must not make private sensitive information publicly available.
This section does not prevent Infrastructure WA or the Premier from making a document from which sensitive information or private sensitive information has been removed publicly available.
This section does not apply to the extent to which —
the information is already in the public domain; or
the information is in a statistical form that could not reasonably be expected to enable it to be related to the person in relation to whom or which the duty is owed or the information is of a commercially sensitive nature; or
the disclosure of the information is with the consent of each person to whom or which it relates.
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