Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A document is an exempt document if its disclosure under this Act would disclose—
(a) trade secrets; or
(b) any other information having a commercial value that would be, or could reasonably be expected to be, destroyed or diminished if the information were disclosed; or
(c) information (other than trade secrets or information to which paragraph (b) applies) concerning a person in respect of his or her business or professional affairs or concerning the business, commercial or financial affairs of an organisation or undertaking, being information—
(i) the disclosure of which would, or could reasonably be expected to, unreasonably affect that person adversely in respect of his or her lawful business or professional affairs or that organisation or undertaking in respect of its lawful business, commercial or financial affairs; or
(ii) the disclosure of which under this Act could reasonably be expected to prejudice the future supply of information to the Territory or an agency for the purpose of the administration of a law or the administration of matters administered by an agency.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a request by a person for access to a document—
(a) only because of the inclusion in the document of information concerning that person in respect of his or her business or professional affairs; or
(b) only because of the inclusion in the document of information concerning the business, commercial or financial affairs of an undertaking where the person making the request is the proprietor of the undertaking or a person acting on behalf of the proprietor; or
(c) only because of the inclusion in the document of information concerning the business, commercial or financial affairs of an organisation where the person making the request is the organisation or a person acting on behalf of the organisation.
(3) A reference in this section to an undertaking includes a reference to an undertaking that is carried on by, or by an authority of, the Territory, the Commonwealth, a State or by a local government authority.