Attachment A
Submissions in support of claiming a practical refusal exists under s
24 of the FOI Act
Please provide the completed document to the OAIC with the information the
respondent is required to provide in accordance with paragraph [3.14] of the
Direction as to certain procedures to be followed by agencies and ministers in IC
reviews | OAIC. Completion of the following tables will be taken as the respondent’s
submissions in this IC review. The respondent is required to send these submissions
to the applicant at the same time as they are sent to the OAIC (see the Procedure
Direction at [3.23]).
Details of submission
Agency reference
OAIC reference
Date submitted to OAIC
Processing timeline and request consultation process (s 24AB)
Event
Date
FOI request received
Request consultation notice sent
Applicant’s response
Further contacts with applicant (if relevant)
Applicant notified of decision
Internal review request received (if relevant)
Internal review decision made (if relevant)
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Request consultation process (s 24AB) – Assistance provided to applicant (s
24AB(3)
Information provided to applicant to assist
revision of request. (For example,
suggestions as to a scope that can be
processed, directing to applicant to publicly
available information, explanation about
difficulties processing request. Please
provide detail.)
Telephone contact attempted with applicant.
(Yes/no – if Yes please provide detail)
Request revised during request consultation
process (yes/no)
Breakdown of estimated processing time (minutes/hours)
Total number
Total estimated
of documents
processing time
Identifying,
Consulting
locating or
collating
Examining
Making a copy
Deciding to
Notifying decision
grant, refuse
or defer
access
Any relevant
additional
information
related to the
estimated
processing
time
2
Sampling
Sample examined? (Yes or No)
Sample size (as a %)
Number of electronic documents
Number of hardcopy documents
Number of non-exempt documents
Number of partially exempt documents
Number of fully exempt documents
Exemptions proposed applied
Number of documents to which a
consultation requirement applies (s
26A, 27 or 27A)
Any relevant additional information
related to sampling
Whether processing the request would be unreasonable
Size of the agency (in terms
of number of employees).
Number of employees
dedicated to FOI
processing
Number or requests
received in the last
financial year
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Whether processing the request would be unreasonable
Other factors the Respondent may consider to be relevant (see FOI Guidelines
[3.201] and
ACW at [22]
1
The staffing resources
available to an agency or
Minister for FOI processing
Whether the processing
work requires the specialist
attention of a minister or
senior officer, or can only
be undertaken by one or
more specialist officers in
an agency who have
competing responsibilities
The impact that processing
a request may have on
other work in an agency or
Minister’s office, including
FOI processing
Whether an applicant has
cooperated in framing a
request to reduce the
processing workload
Whether there is a
significant public interest
in the documents
requested
1 ‘ACW’ and Australian National Maritime Museum (Freedom of informatio
n)[2023] AICmr 4 [22]
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Whether processing the request would be unreasonable
Steps taken by an agency
or Minister to publish
information of the kind
requested by an applicant
[Only relevant to
Ministers]
Responsibilities of the
Minister and demands on
the Minister’s time, and
whether it is open to the
Minister to obtain
assistance from an agency
in processing the request.
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