Parliamentary Service Amendment (Freedom of Information) Act 2013
No. 97, 2013
An Act to amend the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, and for related purposes
Contents
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Schedule(s)
Schedule 1—Amendments
Parliamentary Service Act 1999
Parliamentary Service Amendment (Freedom of Information) Act 2013
No. 97, 2013
An Act to amend the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, and for related purposes
[Assented to 28 June 2013]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Service Amendment (Freedom of Information) Act 2013.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Parliamentary Service Act 1999
1 Before section 69
Insert:
68A Departments and office holders not prescribed authorities for Freedom of Information Act purposes
None of the following is a prescribed authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982:
(a) a Department of the Parliament that is established under this Act;
(b) a person who holds, or performs the duties of, an office established under this Act.
2 Transitional
The Freedom of Information Act 1982 is taken to have had the effect it would have had if:
(a) each Department of the Parliament established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1999 had been taken not to have been a prescribed authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 at all times after the Department was established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1999; and
(b) each person who held, or performed the duties of, an office established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1999 had been taken not to have been a prescribed authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 by virtue of his or her holding, or performing the duties of, that office.
[Minister’s second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 29 May 2013
Senate on 17 June 2013]
(145/13)