If not delivered return to PO Box 7820 Canberra BC ACT 2610
2 March 2017
Our reference: LEX 27631
Name withheld
By email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx Dear Sir or Madam
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:
'Accordingly, I request documents which detail the precise remuneration paid to each
of the Department of Human Service’s (the ‘Department’s’) SES officers in the
following financial years - FY2013/14, FY 2014/15 and FY2015/16. The group
certificates/end-of-year PAYG payments summaries issued by the Department to
each of its SES staff in those years can be quickly and easily identified and retrieved,
and will efficiently and accurately provide the information the subject of my request.
I am willing to agree to the decision maker redacting information relating to the tax file
numbers, the home addresses and information relating to the amount of tax withheld
for each of the relevant SES officers that may be contained in the relevant
documents. I am willing to further narrow the scope of my request by limiting it to
officers employed by the Department who, at the time of my application, were
categorised as SES officers, meaning that:
-Departmental staff who were once SES officers at the Department, but weren’t
categorised as such at the time of this application; and
-the documents the subject of my request that pertain to SES officers who are no
longer employed by the Department;
are discounted from the scope of my application'.
Your request was received by the department on 20 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 22 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.
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Your Address
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 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.
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
xxx.xxxxx.xxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
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