Our reference: FOI 21/22-0740
GPO Box 700
Canberra, ACT, 2601
1800 800 110
25 February 2022
ndis.gov.au
Lesley
By email: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Dear Lesley
Freedom of Information request — Notification of Third Party Consultation
Thank you for your correspondence of 21 December 2021 in which you requested access
under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) to documents held by the National
Disability Insurance Agency (NDA).
As your request includes documents which contain information about the business,
commercial or financial affairs of an organisation, or a person’s business or professional
affairs, we are required to consult with the person or organisation concerned before making
a decision on the release of the documents.
For this reason, the timeframe for processing your request has been extended by 30-days,
to allow us time to consult with that person or organisation. The processing period for your
request will now end on
27 March 2022.
Consultation - business information
We are required to consult when we believe a person or organisation may wish to contend
that the requested documents are exempt, either in full or in part, because their release
would disclose trade secrets or commercially valuable information or may adversely affect
their business or financial affairs. We will take into account any comments we receive from
the person or organisation, but the final decision about whether to grant you access to the
documents rests with us.
Consent to disclose your name Your personal privacy is important to us and we will only disclose your name with your
consent.
However, to assist us in conducting the consultation, we seek your consent to disclose your
name to the relevant person or organisation. If you do not to consent to this, we will not be
able to identify you as the applicant of the FOI request. This may affect the responses given
by the person or organisation.
Can you please let us know whether you consent to the disclosure of your name by
COB 1
March 2022.
If we do not hear from you by this time, we will proceed on the basis that you do not consent
to us disclosing your name.
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Please contact us at
xxx@xxxx.xxx.xx if you have any questions or require help.
Yours sincerely
Carolyn Assistant Director FOI
Parliamentary, Ministerial & FOI Branch
Government Division
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