Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02018:body:0:p28
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2004A02018
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the public interest—
      (a) by reason that the disclosure would prejudice the security, defence or international relations of the Commonwealth;
      (b) by reason that the disclosure would involve the disclosure of deliberations or decisions of the Cabinet or of a Committee of the Cabinet;
      (c) by reason that the disclosure would prejudice relations between the Commonwealth and a State;
      (d) by reason that the disclosure would divulge any information or matter communicated in confidence—
          (i) by or on behalf of the Government of the Commonwealth to the Government of a State or to a person receiving the communication on behalf of the Government of a State; or
          (ii) by or on behalf of the Government of a State to the Government of the Commonwealth or to a person receiving the communication on behalf of the Government of the Commonwealth;
      (e) by reason that the disclosure would be prejudicial to the commercial interests of a public authority of the Commonwealth or other body; or
      (f) for any other reason specified in the certificate that could form the basis for a claim by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth in a judicial proceeding that the information or the contents of the document should not be disclosed.
"(6) Where information, or the contents of a document, to which a certificate under sub-section (5) applies is disclosed to the Auditor-General in the course of the carrying out of an efficiency audit of operations of a relevant body, the Auditor-General may include any of the information, or any of the contents of the document, in a restricted report of the results of the audit prepared by him, and, if he does so, he shall also prepare and sign a separate report of the results of the audit that does not include any of the information or any of the contents of the document.
"(7) Where the Auditor-General prepares a restricted report of the results of an efficiency audit of operations of a relevant body, he shall forward copies of the report to the Prime Minister, to the Minister and to the Public Service Board and, if the relevant person in respect of the body is not the Prime Minister or the Minister, he shall also forward a copy of the report to the relevant person in respect of the body.

"(8) Subject to sub-section (9), where the Auditor-General prepares a report (other than a restricted report) of the results of an efficiency audit of operations of a relevant body—
      (a) he may include the report in the next report made by him under section 51 that includes his report with respect to the accounts, or financial statements, of that body;
      (b) he may include