Wheat Export Marketing Amendment Act 2012 (170 of 2012)

Schedule 2   Amendments relating to Wheat Exports Australia

Part 2   Transitional provisions

Division 4   Other transitional matters

35   Transitional - secrecy of information obtained under the Wheat Export Marketing Act 2008

(1) This item applies in relation to the following provisions (the information provisions ) of the Wheat Export Marketing Act 2008 as in force immediately before the commencement time:

(a) the definition of WEA in section 5;

(b) the definition of WEA member in section 5;

(c) the definition of WEA staff in section 5;

(d) the definition of protected confidential information in section 5;

(e) Part 7.

(2) Despite the repeal of the information provisions by this Schedule, those provisions continue to apply, in relation to protected confidential information disclosed to, or obtained by, a person before the commencement time, as if those repeals had not happened and as if the following paragraph were added at the end of subsection 74(3) of that Act:

; (p) the disclosure is to an officer or employee of the Department for a purpose that is relevant to a function of the Department.