Section 92 — Freedom of Information Act 1982: 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.