Charges
On 5 April 2017, Finance sent you an estimate of charges (
$43.80) in relation to the
processing of your request.
On 10 April 2017, Finance received a contention to the charges letter. I have reviewed the
estimate and can confirm that the estimated cost is a true account of the actual time spent
processing your request. As such, there will be no change to the charge. On 10 May 2017,
Finance affirmed the original estimate of charges.
On 23 May 2017 Finance received payment of a deposit of charges ($20.00). The document
will not be released until the remaining amount of the charges (
$23.80) have been paid.
Review and appeal rights
You are entitled to request an internal review or a review by the Office of the Australian
Information Commissioner (
OAIC) of my decision. The process for review and appeal
rights is set out at Attachment B.
Third party review rights
As affected third parties have contended that the disclosure of their personal information
would be unreasonable and objected to release of some of the documents, I am required, in
accordance with section 27A(5) of the FOI Act, to advise those parties of my decision to
release parts of the documents and give them the opportunity to seek a review of the
decision either by Finance or the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
(OAIC), insofar as those documents relate to them.
The third parties have 30 days in which to seek review or lodge an appeal. The documents
that I have decided to release cannot be released to you until this time period has expired, or
where the third parties lodge an internal review or appeal to the OAIC, until that review or
appeal has been completed.
Publication
The FOI Act requires Commonwealth agencies to publish:
• information in documents to which the agency routinely gives access in response to
FOI requests except where that information is exempt under the FOI Act and
• information in documents released under the FOI Act.
Subject to certain exceptions, any documents provided to you under the FOI Act will be
published on Finance’s FOI Disclosure Log
(www.finance.gov.au) as soon as possible.
Finance’s policy is to publish the documents within one working day after they are released
to you.
