Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2012C00866:clause:4_92
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2012C00866
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 4 cl 92
Character Range: 187209–188383

92  Protection against criminal liability
 (1) A Minister, or an officer of an agency, is not guilty of a criminal offence only because the Minister or officer:
 (a) publishes a document in good faith, in the belief that the publication is required or permitted under Part II (information publication scheme) or section 11C (publication of information in accessed documents); or
 (b) gives access to a document in good faith, in the belief that the access is required or permitted to be given in response to a request; or
 (c) publishes, or gives access to, a document in good faith, in the belief that the publication or access is required or permitted otherwise than under this Act (whether or not under an express legislative power).
 (2) A person is not guilty of a criminal offence only because the person shows a document, or is concerned in the showing of a document, to another person or organisation for any of the following purposes:
 (a) consultation with a State under subsection 26A(2);
 (b) enabling the other person or the organisation to make a submission under subsection 27(4);
 (c) enabling the other person to make a submission under subsection 27A(3).