Australian Government
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
FOi Ref: LEX393
File No: 19/24632
28 February 2020
Mr Edward Kerrigan
By email to: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Dear Mr Kerrigan
Re. Freedom of Information Request
The purpose of this letter is to give you a decision about access to documents that you
requested under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOi Act).
On 25 September 2019 you requested:
"-
Rental agreements or leases in respect of properties rented or leased by DFA Tin
Tandai, Honiara, Solomon Islands in calendar years 2013 -
2016;
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Documents evidencing rent or lease payments paid by DFA Tin respect of such p
roperties during the period 2013- 2016".
I am an officer authorised under section 23 of the FOi Act to make decisions in relation to
FOi requests. I have identified documents relevant to your request and, after careful
consideration, I have decided to release the document with some material exempted.
In making my decision I have taken into account your request and the documents within its
scope, the FOi Act, the Australian Information Commissioner's guidelines under s93A of the
FOi Act, and the comments provided by the affected third parties. The reasons for my
decision are set out below. Where I refer to sections of the FOi Act, these are available at
www.legislation.gov.au.
Some material contained within the documents captured by your request is
irrelevant/outside the scope of your request (section 22(1)(a)(ii) of the FOi Act) as it does
not concern terms of your request. In determining what is irrelevant to your request, I
have taken note of the email which you· received from the Department on 26 August 2019,
in which you were invited to respond if you required the names and contact details of
officers not in the Senior Executive Service or equivalent. As you have not stated that you
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