Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 1992 (ACT)

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act

1992

No. 4 of 1992

[Notified in ACT Gazette S58:25 May 1992]

An Act to amend the Freedom of Information Act 1989

The Legislative Assembly for the Australian Capital Territory enacts as follows:

Short title

1.  This Act may be cited as the Freedom of Information  (Amendment) Act 1992.

Principal Act

2.  In this Act, “Principal Act” means the Freedom of Information Act 1989.1

Requests for access

3.  Section 14 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(5)  Where—

(a)a person requests access to a document under this section;

(b)the request is not accompanied by any application fee; and

(c)the request is accompanied by an application for remission under section 30 of any relevant fee;

the request for access is to be taken to be in accordance with this section unless and until the agency has taken all reasonable steps to notify the applicant that the fee is not to be remitted in full.”.

Internal review

4.  Section 59 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(5)  Where—

(a)a person requests a review of a decision in accordance with this section;

(b)the request is not accompanied by any application fee; and

(c)the request is accompanied by an application for remission under section 30 of any relevant fee;

the request for review is to be taken to be in accordance with this section unless and until the agency has taken all reasonable steps to notify the applicant that the fee is not to be remitted in full.”.

note

1. Ordinance No. 46, 1989 as amended by No. 21, 1989; Act No. 3, 1991.

[Presentation speech made in Assembly on 8 April 1992]

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