New South Wales Consolidated Acts

NATIONAL PARKS AND WILDLIFE ACT 1974 - SECT 161

161 Restriction on release of certain information

(1) The Secretary may, by notice in writing, advise the Minister that the Secretary is of the opinion that specified documents in the possession of the Service relating to--

(a) the location of threatened species, populations or ecological communities or Aboriginal objects, or

(b) the cultural values of an Aboriginal place or Aboriginal object,

should be withheld in the public interest.

(2) The Secretary may declare in the notice that information contained in the documents concerned is information for which there is a conclusive presumption of overriding public interest against disclosure for the purposes of the Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 .

(3) The Secretary must not give a notice under this section in relation to documents relating to the location of Aboriginal objects or the cultural values of an Aboriginal place or Aboriginal object unless the Secretary has consulted with the Aboriginal people who the Secretary is aware have an interest in the documents concerned.