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2) shall not knowingly be disclosed without the consent in writing of the person who provided it, except for the purposes of the administration or enforcement of this Act, the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act or Part 8 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act or for the purposes of legal proceedings relating to its administration or enforcement. Production and evidence (3) No person shall be required to produce or give evidence relating to any information or documentation that is privileged under subsection (2) in connection with any legal proceedings, other than proceedings relating to the administration or enforcement of this Act, the Oil and Gas Production and Conservation Act or Part 8 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act . Registration of documents (4) For greater certainty, this section does not apply to a document that has been registered under Part VIII. Disclosure pursuant to resource management and revenue sharing agreements (5) Information or documentation that is privileged under subsection (2) may be disclosed to any government of a province or to any organization representing any aboriginal people of Canada, where such disclosure is made pursuant to an agreement between the Government of Canada and the government of that province or that organization respecting resource management and revenue sharing in relation to activities respecting the exploration for or the production of petroleum carried out on any frontier lands. Idem (6) The recipient of information or documentation disclosed pursuant to an agreement referred to in subsection (5) shall not disclose that information or documentation except as otherwise provided in this section. Disclosure — governments and agencies (6.1) The Canadian Energy Regulator may disclose any information or documentation that it obtains under this Act or the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act — to officials of the Government of Canada, the government of a province or a foreign government or to the representatives of any of their agencies — for the purposes of a federal, provincial or foreign law, as the case may be, that deals primarily with a petroleum-related work or activity, including the exploration for and the management, administration and exploitation of petroleum resources, if (a) the government or agency undertakes to keep the information or documentation confidential and not to disclose it without the Regulator’s written consent; (b) the information or documentation is disclosed in accordance with any conditions agreed to by the Regulator and the government or agency; and (c) in the case of disclosure to a foreign government or agency, the Minister consents in writing. Disclosure — Minister (6.2) The Canadian Energy Regulator may disclose to the Minister the information or documentation that it has disclosed or intends to disclose under subsection (6.1), but the Minister is not to further disclose that information or documentation unless the Regulator consents in writing to that disclosure or the Minister is required by an Act of Parliament to disclose that information or documentation. Consent (6.3) For the purposes of paragraph (6.1)(a) and subsection (6.2), the Canadian Energy Regulator may consent to the further disclosure of information or documentation only if the Regulator itself is authorized under this section to disclose it. Information that may be disclosed (7) Subsection (2) does not apply in respect of the following classes of information or documentation obtained as a result of carrying on a work or activity that is authorized under the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act , namely, information or documentation in respect of (a) an exploratory well, where the information or documentation is obtained as a direct result of drilling the well and if two years have passed since the well termination date of that well; (b) a delineation well, where the information or documentation is obtained as a direct result of drilling the well and if the later of (i) two years sinc