Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) The information officer of an agency has the following functions:
(a) to deal with access applications made to the agency under part 5;
(b) at the request of the principal officer of another agency—to deal with access applications made to the other agency under part 5;
(c) to deal with requests made of the agency under part 6;
(d) to ensure that the agency meets its obligation to publish open access information under part 4;
(e) to consider the appropriateness of the agency's publication undertakings under part 4;
(f) to proactively consider whether and how public access may be given to other government information held by the agency.
(2) An information officer may delegate a function mentioned in subsection (1) (a), (b) or (c) to a staff member in the information officer's agency.
(3) However, the information officer must not delegate the function of—
(a) deciding an access application; or
(b) refusing to deal with an application; or
(c) deciding a request to amend personal information.