Signed copy of legislative instruments
is it possible to provide copy of the original signed copy of the following legislative instruments?
Thank yous!
Yours faithfully,
Tyler
- Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Regulations 2021
- Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Amendment (Your Future, Your Super—Addressing Underperformance in Superannuation) Regulations 2023
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FOI Coordinator
OFFICIAL
Dear Tyler
Thank you for your request for documents under the Freedom of Information
Act 1982 seeking access to:
o Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Regulations
2021
o Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Amendment (Your Future, Your
Super—Addressing Underperformance in Superannuation) Regulations 2023
For your information, the two instruments are available for public
download on the [1]Federal Register of Legislation. The first instrument
is owned by Finance and the second is owned by Treasury:
o [2]Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures)
Regulations 2021 - Federal Register of Legislation
o [3]Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Amendment (Your Future, Your
Super—Addressing Underperformance in Superannuation) Regulations 2023
- Federal Register of Legislation
The only difference between the original signed copies and the version on
the Federal Register of Legislation is the signatures.
We note that Finance has adopted a policy to generally exclude from any
documents released under FOI, signatures and mobile phone numbers from any
documents released under FOI (unless publicly available). Therefore, the
likely version released under FOI would be the same as that available on
the Federal Register of Legislation.
Therefore, we ask that you withdraw your request from Finance.
We would be grateful for your response by 5pm Tuesday 30 September 2025.
Kind regards,
FOI Team
FOI Officer | Legal and Assurance Branch
Business Enabling Services
Department of Finance
A: One Canberra Avenue, Forrest ACT 2603
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is it possible to provide copy of the original signed copy of the
following legislative instruments?
Thank yous!
Yours faithfully,
Tyler
- Electoral Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Regulations
2021
- Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Amendment (Your Future, Your
Super—Addressing Underperformance in Superannuation) Regulations 2023
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Dear Department of Finance,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Finance's handling of my FOI request 'Signed copy of legislative instruments'.
The reason provided by Finance is that documents containing signatures will necessarily and automatically have signatures redacted if provided. This does not appear to be a policy or practice uniformly applied by Commonwealth departments and offices for FOI requests.
Can you review and confirm?
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: http://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/si...
Yours faithfully,
Tyler