Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1991 - SECT 26

      (1) Information is exempt information if –

(a) its disclosure under this Act would prejudice relations between –

(i) two or more States; or

(ii) a State and the Commonwealth; or

(iii) the Commonwealth or a State and any other country; or

(b) the information was communicated in confidence to –

(i) the Government or an authority of this State; or

(ii) a person on behalf of the Government or an authority of this State –

by –

(iii) the Government or an authority of the Commonwealth, of another State or of another country; or

(iv) a person on behalf of the Government or an authority of the Commonwealth, of another State or of another country –

      (1A) Information is exempt information if –

(a) the information was communicated to –

(i) the Government or an authority of this State; or

(ii) a person on behalf of the Government or an authority of this State –

by –

(iii) the Government or an authority of the Commonwealth or of another State; or

(iv) a person on behalf of the Government or an authority of the Commonwealth or of another State; and

(b) notice has been received from the Government or an authority of the Commonwealth or of the other State that the information is exempt information under, as the case may be, a corresponding law of the Commonwealth or of the other State.

      (2) In this section –

"corresponding law" means a law of the Commonwealth or of another State that is declared by the regulations to be a law that corresponds to this Act;

"State" includes the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory.