Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 45

                   If:

                     (a)  a person (the first person ) applies for a GMO licence; and

                     (b)  the first person provides information to the Regulator for the purposes of the Regulator's consideration of the application; and

                     (c)  the information is confidential commercial information;

the Regulator must not take that information into account for the purposes of considering an application by another person for a GMO licence, unless the first person has given written consent for the information to be so taken into account.