Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

OFFSHORE PETROLEUM AND GREENHOUSE GAS STORAGE ACT 2006 - SECT 740B

  (1)   This section restricts what a recipient Minister may do with an eligible sample made available to the recipient Minister under section   740.

  (2)   The recipient Minister must not:

  (a)   make publicly known any details of the sample; or

  (b)   permit a person (other than a Minister, a Minister of a State or a Minister of the Northern Territory) to inspect the sample;

unless the recipient Minister does so:

  (c)   in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or

  (d)   for the purposes of the administration of this Act or the regulations.

  (3)   If the recipient Minister permits a person (the second recipient Minister ) who is a Minister, a Minister of a State or a Minister of the Northern Territory to inspect the sample, the second recipient Minister must not:

  (a)   make publicly known any details of the sample; or

  (b)   permit a person to inspect the sample;

unless the second recipient Minister does so:

  (c)   in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or

  (d)   for the purposes of the administration of this Act or the regulations.