(1)  Information is exempt information if it is contained in –

(a) the official record of a deliberation or decision of the Cabinet; or

(b) a record proposed by a Minister for the purpose of being submitted to the Cabinet for consideration; or

(c) a record that is a copy of, or a copy of part of, a record referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) ; or

(d) a record, the disclosure of which would involve the disclosure of a deliberation or decision of the Cabinet, other than a record by which a decision of the Cabinet was officially published.

(2)  Subsection (1) ceases to apply after the end of the period of 10 years commencing on the date on which the information referred to in that subsection was first considered by the Cabinet at a meeting of the Cabinet.

(3)  Subsection (1) does not include information solely because it –

(a) was submitted to the Cabinet for consideration; or

(b) is proposed by a Minister to be submitted to the Cabinet for consideration –

if the information was not brought into existence for submission to the Cabinet for consideration.

(4)  Subsection (1) does not include purely factual information unless its disclosure would disclose a deliberation or decision of the Cabinet which has not been officially published.

(5)  Nothing in this section prevents the Premier from voluntarily disclosing information that is otherwise exempt information.

(6)  In this section –

the Cabinet includes a committee of the Cabinet.