Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00179:section:285
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00179
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 285
Character Range: 340620–341719

285  Protection of confidentiality
 (1) This section restricts what a Minister (including a Minister of a State, a Minister of the Australian Capital Territory or a Minister of the Northern Territory) may do with documentary information made available to the Minister under section 284.
 (2) The Minister must not make the information:
 (a) publicly known; or
 (b) available to a person (other than another Minister, a Minister of a State, a Minister of the Australian Capital Territory or a Minister of the Northern Territory).
 (3) If the Minister makes the information available to another Minister (including a Minister of a State, a Minister of the Australian Capital Territory or a Minister of the Northern Territory) the other Minister must not make the information:
 (a) publicly known; or
 (b) available to a person.
 (4) Subsection (2) or (3) does not apply if the Minister concerned makes information known or available:
 (a) in accordance with regulations made for the purposes of this paragraph; or
 (b) for the purposes of the administration of this Act.

Subdivision C—Miscellaneous