New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PRIVACY AND PERSONAL INFORMATION PROTECTION ACT 1998 - SECT 43

43 Disclosure of Cabinet or Executive Council information

(1) Nothing in this Act or the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 authorises the Privacy Commissioner to require any person or public sector agency to disclose Cabinet information or Executive Council information.

(2) The Director-General or Deputy Director-General (General Counsel) of the Department of Premier and Cabinet may certify that information is Cabinet information. Any such certificate:

(a) is conclusive of that fact, and

(b) authorises any person or agency who would otherwise be required under this Act or the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 to disclose the information concerned to refuse to disclose it.

(3) In this section:
"Cabinet information" means information that is Cabinet information under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 .
"Executive Council information" means information that is Executive Council information under the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 .