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OFFSHORE MINERALS ACT 1994 - SECT 27

Confidential information

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act, information is confidential information if:

  (a)   a licence holder has given it to the Designated Authority; and

  (b)   it is in a record, return, report or document; and

  (c)   it relates to activities authorised by the licence; and

  (d)   it relates to an area of the seabed or subsoil of an offshore area that is covered by the licence or a successor licence to the licence.

  (2)   However, if:

  (a)   a person is required to give the Designated Authority a report in relation to particular blocks; and

  (b)   the person gives the Designated Authority a report that relates not only to those blocks but also to other blocks; and

  (c)   the Designated Authority is required to make the report available under section   376;

the information that relates to those other blocks is not confidential information.



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