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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 92

Protection against criminal liability

  (1)   A Minister, or an officer of an agency, does not commit 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 does not commit 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).

  (3)   For the purposes of paragraph   (2)(a), State has the same meaning as in section   26A.


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