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12 January 2016
FOI/LEX: 16962
Mr Patrick Conheady
Via email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx Dear Mr Conheady
Your Freedom of Information Request - Acknowledgement
1. I refer to your request for access to documents under the
Freedom of Information Act
1982 (the
FOI Act). I have taken your request to be for:
'Please provide the data dictionary (or equivalent) for the Department's data
warehouse(s) (or equivalent).
The requested documents should list tables, columns, the plain English meaning of
each column and the relationships between tables (foreign keys, etc), and include all
non-sensitive reference data such as the meanings of codes used in tables'.
Timeframe to Process Your FOI Request - extension of time
2. Your request was received by the department on 27 December 2015 and the 30 day
statutory period for processing your request commenced from the day after that date.
3. Due to the reduced activity period over December and January, we are seeking your
permission to extend the processing time by an extra 15 days to allow us process your
request. This means you can expect to receive a decision from us by 10 February 2016.
4. Unless we hear otherwise from you, we propose to treat this as an extension of time by
agreement under the FOI Act (s15AA). If, however, you have any concerns with that
timeframe, please let us know by emailing us at the email address set out below.
5. The timeframe may be further extended if we need to consult third parties or for other
reasons. We will advise you if this happens.
6. The department will advise you if a charge is payable to process your request and the
amount of any such charge as soon as practicable. No charge is payable for providing a
person with their own personal information.
Your Address
7. The FOI Act requires that you provide us with an address which we can send notices to.
You have advised your electronic address is
foi+request-1459-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx. We will send all notices and correspondence to this
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address. Please advise us if you wish correspondence to be sent to another address or if
your address changes as soon as possible. If you do not advise us of changes to your
address, correspondence and notices will continue to be sent to the address specified
above.
Disclosure Log
8. Please note that information released under FOI Act may be published in a disclosure
log on the department's website. Section 11C of the FOI Act requires this publication,
however it is subject to certain exceptions, including where publication of personal,
business, professional or commercial information would be unreasonable.
Exclusion of junior department employee details
9. The department is working towards ensuring that all employees have a choice about
whether they provide their full name, personal logon identifiers and direct contact details
in response to public enquiries. Where such details are included in the scope of a
request, this may add to processing time and applicable charges as it may be necessary
to consider whether the details are exempt under the FOI Act. On this basis, unless you
tell us otherwise, we will assume that these details are out of scope of your request and
they will be redacted under section 22 of the FOI Act.
10. Should you have any enquiries concerning this matter, please send an email to:
xxx.xxxxx.xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Registration Officer
Freedom of Information Team
FOI and Litigation Branch | Legal Services Division
Department of Human Services
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