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28 March 2017
Our reference: LEX 28753
Mr Luke Bacon
By email:
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx Dear Mr Bacon
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:
‘Could you please send through all documents, including correspondence, from the
last 2 years (March 2015 - March 24 2017) that refer to the payment methods the
Department accepts for FOI requesters to pay charges.
Please exclude from the scope all FOI correspondence between requesters and FOI
officers. I am only interested in internal documents; and correspondence between
department staff, between staff and ministerial staff, and staff and 3rd parties.’
Your request was received by the department on 24 March 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 23 April 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 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.
Administrative Release of Documents
A number of the documents you are seeking may be generally available to you without the
need for a formal FOI request and can be released through the department's administrative
access arrangements ('the arrangements'). Unless you advise us otherwise, in processing
your request we may provide you with documents under these arrangements where
appropriate. The arrangements do not extend to information or materials of third parties.
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Where documents are released to you under the arrangements we will advise you in our
decision letter.
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 ema
il 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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