Australian Securities
and Investments Commission
Office address (inc courier deliveries):
Level 7, 120 Col ins Street,
Melbourne VIC 3000
Mail address for Melbourne office:
GPO Box 9827,
Brisbane QLD 4001
Tel: +61 1300 935 075
Phil ip Sweeney
Fax: +61 1300 729 000
By email: foi+request-6439-
xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
www.asic.gov.au
Our Reference:
FOI 110-2020
31 July 2020
Dear Mr Sweeney
Freedom of Information Request No. 110-2020
Notice of Extended Timeframe (Third Party Consultation)
I refer to your clustered requests between the dates 28 June 2020 and 30 June 2020,
under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (
FOI Act) in which you seek access
to documents in the possession of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
(
ASIC).
As certain documents that fall within your request contain personal information about
another individual, ASIC is required to consult with the person concerned (under
section 27A of the FOI Act) before making a decision on the release of these
documents.
The consultation provision under section 27A of the FOI Act applies when a decision-
maker forms the view that the individual concerned may wish to contend that the
requested documents are exempt because their release would constitute an
unreasonable disclosure of their personal information. For this reason, I have written to
the affected third party to invite them to make a submission regarding release of the
documents. I wil take into consideration comments received from them noting that
the final decision about whether the documents are exempt rests with me as the
decision maker.
Pursuant to section 15(6) of the FOI Act the period for processing your request has now
been extended by 30 days to al ow ASIC time to undertake this consultation process.
You should therefore expect a decision to be made by 31 August 2020.
If you have any questions or wish to discuss, please contact me at
xxxxxxx.xxxx@xxxx.xxx.xx
Yours sincerely,
Krystal Fung
(Authorised decision maker pursuant to subsection 23(1) of the FOI Act)
For the Australian Securities and Investments Commission
