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Freedom of Information (FOI) request
Notice of Decision
Reference: FOI/2025/126
Tyler
By email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx

Dear Tyler,
I refer to your request dated 10 June 2025 to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet,
under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act).
The purpose of this letter is to provide you with a decision on your request for access under the
FOI Act.
Scope of request
You requested the fol owing:
I have been referred to your Department from the Attorney-General's Department on
this. AGD's reference is Freedom of Information Request FOI25/178.
Is it possible to provide copy of the original signed copy of the following legislative
instruments?

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- Attorney-General’s (Spent and Redundant Instruments) Repeal Regulation 2013 (Select
Legislative Instrument No. 49, 2013)
- Spent and Redundant Instruments Repeal Regulation 2014 (Select Legislative
Instrument No. 25, 2014)

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Authorised decision-maker
I am authorised to make this decision in accordance with arrangements approved by the
Department’s Secretary under section 23 of the FOI Act.
Material taken into account
In reaching my decision I referred to the fol owing:
•  the terms of your request
•  searches undertaken by the Department
•  the documents relevant to your request
•  the FOI Act
•  the Guidelines issued by the Information Commissioner1 (the Guidelines)
Documents in scope of request
The Department has identified 2 documents that fal  within the scope of your request.
These documents are set out in the Schedule of Documents at Attachment A.
Decision
I have decided to grant access in ful , with irrelevant material deleted
Reason for decision
My findings of fact and reasons for deciding that certain information are irrelevant is set out below.
1.  Deletion of irrelevant matter
Section 22 of the FOI Act authorises the Department to give access to an edited copy of a document
if giving access to a document would disclose information that would be reasonably regarded as
irrelevant to the request, and it is possible for the Department to prepare an edited copy, modified by
deletions, ensuring that the edited copy would not disclose any information that would reasonably be
regarded as irrelevant to the request.
On 10 June 2025, the Department advised you of its policy to exclude the personal and direct contact
details of officers not in the Senior Executive Service (SES) and any Ministerial staff, as wel  as any
person’s signature, and the mobile or direct numbers of SES officers, which are contained in
documents that fal  within the terms of an FOI request. This category of information is identified as
irrelevant and documents can be modified by the Department to delete the irrelevant material.


1 s 93A of the FOI Act
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Accordingly I am satisfied that parts of the documents are irrelevant under section 22(1)(a)(i ) of the
FOI Act. The remaining parts of the documents have been released to you as they are relevant to your
request.
Review rights
If you disagree with my decision, you may apply for internal review or Information Commissioner
review of the decision.
Internal review
Under section 54 of the FOI Act, you may apply in writing to the Department for an internal review of
my decision. The internal review application must be made within 30 days after the date of this letter,
please attach the reasons why you disagree with the decision.
Applications for review should be sent to xxx@xxx.xxx.xx.
Information Commissioner review
Under section 54L of the FOI Act, you may apply to the Australian Information Commissioner to
review my decision. An application for review by the Information Commissioner must be made in
writing within 60 days after the date of this letter. You can apply using the OAIC Web Form.2
FOI Complaints
If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your FOI request, please let us know what we could
have done better. We may be able to rectify the problem. If you are not satisfied with our response,
you can make a complaint to the Australian Information Commissioner. A complaint to the
Information Commissioner must be made in writing. You can make a complaint using the
OAIC Web Form.3

2 https://webform.oaic.gov.au/prod?entitytype=ICReview&layoutcode=ICReviewWF
3 https://webform.oaic.gov.au/prod?entitytype=Complaint&layoutcode=FOIComplaintWF
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If you wish to discuss any aspect of your requests, you can contact the FOI Section by email at
xxx@xxx.xxx.xx.

Yours sincerely,

Branko Ananijevski
Assistant Secretary
Cabinet Governance and National Security Branch
Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
4 July 2025
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