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21 February 2017
Our reference: LEX 27449
James Smith
By email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx Dear Mr Smith
Acknowledgement of your Freedom of Information Request
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:
'I request the document(s) which describe the data provided to the external
organisation(s) responsible for conducting the ballot(s) for all Enterprise Agreements
put to staff for a vote.
The scope of this request is limited only to those ballots undertaken for enterprise
agreements which were proposed to take effect after 30 June 2014.
The document shall describe the data given to the ballot agent. For example,
employee name, employee identification number, employee email address, etc. I
exclude the data for specific employees here; I am only after the 'meta-data'.
If it assists you to treat this as an administrative request for information I encourage
you to do so. Otherwise, please consider this a formal FOI request.'
Your request was received by the department on 16 February 2017 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 20 March 2017. 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.
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.
Your Address
The FOI Act requires that you provide us with an address which we can send notices to. You
have advised your email address is
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx. We will
send all notices and correspondence to this address. Please advise us as soon as possible if
you wish correspondence to be sent to another address or if your address changes. If you do
not advise us of changes to your address, correspondence and notices will continue to be
sent to the address specified above.
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Disclosure Log
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
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.
Further assistance
If you have any questions please email
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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