Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts (1) The Minister may
delete from —
(a) a
copy of a report under the Financial Management Act 2006 (and any
accompanying document) that is to be laid before a House of Parliament or made
public; or
(b) any
other document of the Department that is to be, or might be, made public,
information that is of
a commercially sensitive nature, despite section 64 of the Financial
Management Act 2006 or an obligation, however arising, to make the
document public.
(2)
Subsection (1) does not apply to the extent to which —
(a) the
information is already in the public domain; or
(b) the
information is summary or statistical information that could not reasonably be
expected to enable particulars relating to any person to be ascertained; or
(c)
disclosure of the information is authorised by each person or organisation to
whom it relates.
(3) A copy of a
document from which any matter has been deleted must —
(a)
contain a statement, at the place in the document where the matter was
deleted, detailing the reasons for the deletion; and
(b) be
accompanied by an opinion from the Auditor General stating that the
information deleted is commercially sensitive.
[Section 80 inserted by No. 38 of 2007
s. 184.]