Request for Delegation Schedules

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Dear Department of Finance,

Under the FOI provisions I request that you provide me with a copy of any delegations schedule/s in use at Finance.

Specifically, I am seeking any schedules wherein decision makers exercise authority under the pieces of legislation, excluding financial and HR delegations schedules.

If this information is already available on your webiste or elsewhere, please point me to where I can find these schedules.

Yours faithfully,

Red

Yours faithfully,

Red

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Hi Red

Here are some public information:
http://www.finance.gov.au/property/lands...
http://www.finance.gov.au/resource-manag...

Do you have any particular legislation that you are interested? The request is very broad as Finance administer numerous legislation. If you limit your request to the legislation you are interested in, it'll be easier for Finance to process your request.

regards,

Chak

-----Original Message-----
From: Red [mailto:[FOI #789 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 29 October 2014 2:35 PM
To: FOI Requests
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Request for Delegation Schedules

Dear Department of Finance,

Under the FOI provisions I request that you provide me with a copy of any delegations schedule/s in use at Finance.

Specifically, I am seeking any schedules wherein decision makers exercise authority under the pieces of legislation, excluding financial and HR delegations schedules.

If this information is already available on your webiste or elsewhere, please point me to where I can find these schedules.

Yours faithfully,

Red

Yours faithfully,

Red

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Dear Chak,

Thank you for your response. I appreciate that my request is probably not well worded. Specifically, if the staff of the Department of Finance make delegated decisions under a particular Act in their day-to-day work, is there a Delegations Schedule that lists their position number and the delegations they hold?

Yours sincerely,

Red

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Hi Red

Delegations are usually done on an Act by Act basis (as you can see from the publically available instruments). We don't have a specific schedule for individual staff. If you want to FOI every single delegation instrument, it would be quite a resource intensive exercise. Are there any areas of topic that you are interested to narrow the scope?

The Administrative Arrangements Order lists out all the legislation that the Department administers. https://www.dpmc.gov.au/parliamentary/do...

You can have a look at the above to see what you are interested in. I note that not every legislation requires a delegation. Also, there are other legislation that are not listed that will require a delegation such as HR and financial.

I trust that the above information is useful.

Regards,

Chak

-----Original Message-----
From: Red [mailto:[FOI #789 email]]
Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2014 8:02 AM
To: FOI Requests
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Request for Delegation Schedules [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Dear Chak,

Thank you for your response. I appreciate that my request is probably not well worded. Specifically, if the staff of the Department of Finance make delegated decisions under a particular Act in their day-to-day work, is there a Delegations Schedule that lists their position number and the delegations they hold?

Yours sincerely,

Red

-----Original Message-----

UNCLASSIFIED

Hi Red

Here are some public information:
http://www.finance.gov.au/property/lands...
http://www.finance.gov.au/resource-manag...

Do you have any particular legislation that you are interested? The request is very broad as Finance administer numerous legislation. If you limit your request to the legislation you are interested in, it'll be easier for Finance to process your request.

regards,

Chak

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Hi Red

I haven't heard from you since my last email. Do you still want to go ahead with your FOI request?

Regards,

Chak

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Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2014 8:22 AM
To: Red
Cc: FOI Requests
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Request for Delegation Schedules [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

UNCLASSIFIED

Hi Red

Delegations are usually done on an Act by Act basis (as you can see from the publically available instruments). We don't have a specific schedule for individual staff. If you want to FOI every single delegation instrument, it would be quite a resource intensive exercise. Are there any areas of topic that you are interested to narrow the scope?

The Administrative Arrangements Order lists out all the legislation that the Department administers. https://www.dpmc.gov.au/parliamentary/do...

You can have a look at the above to see what you are interested in. I note that not every legislation requires a delegation. Also, there are other legislation that are not listed that will require a delegation such as HR and financial.

I trust that the above information is useful.

Regards,

Chak

-----Original Message-----
From: Red [mailto:[FOI #789 email]]
Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2014 8:02 AM
To: FOI Requests
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Request for Delegation Schedules [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Dear Chak,

Thank you for your response. I appreciate that my request is probably not well worded. Specifically, if the staff of the Department of Finance make delegated decisions under a particular Act in their day-to-day work, is there a Delegations Schedule that lists their position number and the delegations they hold?

Yours sincerely,

Red

-----Original Message-----

UNCLASSIFIED

Hi Red

Here are some public information:
http://www.finance.gov.au/property/lands...
http://www.finance.gov.au/resource-manag...

Do you have any particular legislation that you are interested? The request is very broad as Finance administer numerous legislation. If you limit your request to the legislation you are interested in, it'll be easier for Finance to process your request.

regards,

Chak

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Dear FOI Requests,

I do want to go ahead with the request, but I'm not sure how to word it. Essentially what I really want to know is whether your delegation schedules are based on position numbers or levels. That is, do individual staff hold delegations because of their position, or are delegations broadly applied to staff at level.

Yours sincerely,

Red

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Hi Red

How about you pick a few legislation to look at from the administrative arrangement order list (attached again for your convenience). Your request as currently worded is unlikely to be processed, given the sheer number of legislation that we administer. It is likely an unreasonable diversion of resources to process your FOI request.

Please let me know how you would like to proceed.

Regards,

Chak

-----Original Message-----
From: Red [mailto:[FOI #789 email]]
Sent: Wednesday, 5 November 2014 5:50 PM
To: FOI Requests
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - Request for Delegation Schedules [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Dear FOI Requests,

I do want to go ahead with the request, but I'm not sure how to word it. Essentially what I really want to know is whether your delegation schedules are based on position numbers or levels. That is, do individual staff hold delegations because of their position, or are delegations broadly applied to staff at level.

Yours sincerely,

Red

-----Original Message-----

UNCLASSIFIED

Hi Red

I haven't heard from you since my last email. Do you still want to go ahead with your FOI request?

Regards,

Chak

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Dear FOI Requests,

Under FOI please provide copie of the Delegation Schedules for these items of legislation -

Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918
Commonwealth Electoral Legislation (Provision of Information) Act 2000
Commonwealth Funds Management Limited Act 1990

Yours sincerely,

Red

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Dear Red,

 

Freedom of Information Request – FOI14/151

Thank you for your email to the Department of Finance (Finance) requesting
access to the following under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI
Act).

 

... a copy of any delegations schedule/s in use at Finance.

 

Specifically, I am seeking any schedules wherein decision makers exercise
authority under the pieces of legislation, excluding financial and HR
delegations schedules.

 

In an email dated 6 November 2014, you revised your request to:

 

Under FOI please provide copies of the Delegation Schedules for these
items of legislation -

 

Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918

Commonwealth Electoral Legislation (Provision of Information) Act 2000

Commonwealth Funds Management Limited Act 1990

 

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FOI Officer

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Corporate Services Division

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T: 02 6215 1783 E: [email address]

 

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Good morning Red,

 

Please see attached, correspondence in regards to your FOI request (our
reference number FOI14/151).

 

Regards,

[1]Department of Finance and Deregulation

FOI Officer

Legal Services Branch

Corporate Services Division

Department of Finance

T: 02 6215 1783 E: [email address]

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Dear FOI Requests,

This is an interesting way to assist applicants with their FOI claim. You suggested narrowing my scope and provided me with a copy of the administrative arrangement order list overseen by Finance - on which these three instruments were listed - and then tell me you don't have any of them. Gee, thanks for the help!

Yours sincerely,

Red

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