GENE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2000 - SECT 45 Regulator must not use certain information in considering licence application

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.