New Zealand Acts

COMMERCE ACT 1986 - SECT 53ZG

53ZG Power to exempt disclosure of commercially sensitive information

1 The Commission may, on application, exempt any person or class of persons, in respect of any information or class of information that the Commission considers to be commercially sensitive, from any obligation to make that information publicly available as part of the requirements of information disclosure regulation, negotiate/arbitrate regulation, or customised price-quality regulation, or revenue threshold regulation, quality regulation, performance requirement regulation, or price-quality regulation under subpart 12 .

2 The Commission may grant the exemption on any terms and conditions that it thinks fit.

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4 The Commission may, in like manner, vary or revoke any exemption.

5 The Commission must keep a list of all current exemptions made by it under this section available for public inspection free of charge during normal office hours of the Commission at the offices of the Commission.

6 An exemption, and any variation or revocation of it, is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

History: Section 53ZG: inserted, on 14 October 2008, by section 4 of the Commerce Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 70).   Section 53ZG(1): amended, on 27 August 2025, by section 13 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).     Section 53ZG(3): repealed, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).     Section 53ZG(6): replaced, on 28 October 2021, by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).