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20 January 2016
Mr Doug Stewart
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
FOI/LEX: 17212
Dear Mr Stewart
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:
'a copy of Operational Blueprint 104.04060020 with regard to “Implied Authority”’.
2. Your request was received by the department on 20 January 2016 and the 30 day
statutory period for processing your request commenced from the day after that date.
You should therefore expect a decision from us by 19 February 2016. The period of 30
days may be extended if we need to consult third parties or for other reasons. We will
advise you if this happens.
3. 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
4. The FOI Act requires that you provide us with an address which we can send notices to.
You have advised your electronic address is:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx. We will send all notices and
correspondence to this 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
5. 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.
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Exclusion of junior department employee details
6. 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.
7. Should you have any enquiries concerning this matter, please send an email to:
xxx.xxxxx.xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx.
Yours sincerely,
Delegate
Freedom of Information Team
FOI and Litigation Branch | Legal Services Division
Department of Human Services
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