Our reference: FOIREQ22/00162

Dear Julie

Freedom of Information request

I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act) and received by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on 1 July 2022.

Scope of your request

In your email you seek access to the following:

“As the OAIC has alleged it needed 30 days to consult a third party for FOIREQ22/00095, I request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act) copy of all documents relating to the third party consultations the OAIC says it took for FOIREQ22/00095.”

In order to process your request as efficiently as possible, I will exclude duplicates and early parts of email streams that are captured in later email streams from the scope of this request, unless you advise me otherwise.

We will not identify you as the FOI applicant during and consultation process. However, documents that are within the scope of your request that we may need to consult third parties about may contain your personal information.

Timeframes for dealing with your request

Section 15 of the FOI Act requires this office to process your request no later than 30 days after the day we receive it. However, section 15(6) of the FOI Act allows us a further 30 days in situations where we need to consult with third parties about certain information, such as business documents or documents affecting their personal privacy.

As we received your request on 1 July 2022, we must process your request by 1 August 2022.

Disclosure Log

Documents released under the FOI Act may be published online on our disclosure log, unless they contain personal or business information that would be unreasonable to publish.

If you would like to discuss this matter, please contact me on my contact details set out below.

Regards

 

Toby Shanks | Paralegal

Legal Services

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

GPO Box 5218 Sydney NSW 2001 | oaic.gov.au

1300 363 992 | [email address]

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