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enactment or otherwise) to payment of a debt payable to the Commonwealth in priority to another debt or to all other debts included in a class of debts.
"(3) The power conferred on the Minister by sub-section (2) is in addition to, and does not derogate from, any other power conferred on the Minister by this Act, by any other Act or by a law of a Territory.
"(4) The Minister shall not waive the right of the Commonwealth to the payment of an amount exceeding $25,000 unless he has considered a report concerning the proposed waiver furnished to him by a committee consisting of the Secretary to the Department of Finance, the Secretary to the Department of Administrative Services and the Comptroller-General of Customs.
"(5) The Minister may appoint a person to be a deputy of a person for the time being holding, or performing the duties of, an office specified in sub-section (4).
"(6) Where the person for the time being holding, or performing the duties of, an office specified in sub-section (4) is, at any time, unable to act as a member of the committee referred to in that sub-section, the deputy of that person may act as a member of that committee on his behalf and shall, while so acting, be deemed to be a member of that committee in place of that person.
"(7) The regulations may make provision for and in relation to the conduct of the business of, and the convening and conduct of meetings of, the committee referred to in sub-section (4).".

60. After section 70c of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Exempt accounts
"70d. (1) Where the responsible Minister in respect of a prescribed Department or a prescribed organization is satisfied that disclosure of the accounts, or of a particular part of the accounts, of the Department or the organization—
      (a) would prejudice operations that have been carried on, are being carried on or are expected to be carried on by the Department or by the organization, as the case may be; and
      (b) would be contrary to the national interest,
the responsible Minister may declare, by writing under his hand, that those accounts are, or that part of those accounts is, to be treated as exempt accounts of the Department or of the organization, as the case may be, for the purposes of this section.
"(2) A declaration under sub-section (1) in respect of a Department or an organization has no force or effect until it is delivered to the Auditor-General.
"(3) Upon delivery to the Auditor-General, but subject to sub-section (4), a declaration under sub-section (1) in respect of accounts, or a part of accounts, applies