Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts"confidential information" , in relation to arbitral proceedings, means information that relates to the proceedings or to an award made in the proceedings and includes:
(a) the statement of claim, statement of defence, and all other pleadings, submissions, statements, or other information supplied to the arbitral tribunal by a party to the proceedings; and
(b) any evidence (whether documentary or other) supplied to the arbitral tribunal; and
(c) any notes made by the arbitral tribunal of oral evidence or submissions given before the arbitral tribunal; and
(d) any transcript of oral evidence or submissions given before the arbitral tribunal; and
(e) any rulings of the arbitral tribunal; and
(f) any award of the arbitral tribunal.
"disclose" , in relation to confidential information, includes giving or communicating the confidential information in any way.
"Model Law" means the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Arbitration adopted by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on 21 June 1985 and amended by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on 7 July 2006, the English text of which is set out in Schedule 2.
(2) Except so far as the contrary intention appears, a word or
expression that is used both in this Part and in the Model Law (whether or not
a particular meaning is given to it by the Model Law) has, in this Part, the
same meaning as it has in the Model Law.