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Ms Verity Pane
By email to
: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Dear Ms Pane
Your Freedom of Information request
I refer to your request for access to documents under the
Freedom of Information
Act 1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act), received by the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) on 27 September 2017.
In your request you sought access to a subset of the documents released to you on 25 August
2017 (in response to an FOI request you made on 31 July 2017 for copies of al the s 44
notices issued by the OAIC since its establishment on 1 November 2010). The subset of
documents is the s 44 notices that were issued to Australian government agencies.
Decision
I am an officer authorised under s 23(1) of the FOI Act to make decisions in relation to FOI
requests.
I have decided to grant you access to the s 44 notices issued by the OAIC to Australian
government agencies. The documents are attached to my covering email.
If you disagree with my decision
Internal review
You have the right to apply for an internal review of my decision under Part VI of the FOI Act.
An internal review wil be conducted, to the extent possible, by an officer of the OAIC who
was not involved in or consulted in the making of my decision. If you wish to apply for an
internal review, you must do so in writing within 30 days. There is no application fee for
internal review.
If you wish to apply for an internal review, please mark your application for the attention of
the FOI Coordinator and state the grounds on which you consider that my decision should be
reviewed.
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Further Review
You have the right to seek review of this decision by the Information Commissioner and the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT).
You may apply to the Information Commissioner for a review of my decision (IC review). If you
wish to apply for IC review, you must do so in writing within 60 days. Your application must
provide an address (which can be an email address or fax number) that we can send notices
to, and include a copy of this letter. A request for IC review can be made in relation to my
decision, or an internal review decision.
It is the Information Commissioner’s view that it wil usual y not be in the interests of the
administration of the FOI Act to conduct an IC review of a decision, or an internal review
decision, made by the agency that the Information Commissioner heads: the OAIC. For this
reason, if you make an application for IC review of my decision, it is likely that the Information
Commissioner will decide (under s 54W(b) of the FOI Act) not to undertake an IC review on
the basis that it is desirable that my decision be considered by the AAT.
Section 57A of the FOI Act provides that, before you can apply to the AAT for review of an FOI
decision, you must first have applied for IC review.
Applications for internal review or IC review can be submitted to:
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
GPO Box 5218
SYDNEY NSW 2001
Alternatively, you may submit your application by email to
xxx@xxxx.xxx.xx, or by fax on
02 9284 9666.
Yours sincerely
Raewyn Harlock
Assistant Director
Dispute Resolution Branch
3 October 2017
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