Commonwealth Numbered Acts

Freedom of Information Amendment Act 1983 No. 81 of 1983 - SECT 5

5. Section 9 of the Principal Act is amended-

   (a)  by omitting paragraph (2) (c) and substituting the following
        paragraph:

''(c) within 3 months, if practicable, and, in any case, not later than 12
months, after the publication of the last preceding statement published under
paragraph (b) or this paragraph, cause to be published in the Gazette a
statement bringing up to date the information contained in that last preceding
statement.'';

   (b)  by omitting from sub-section (5) ''an agency'' and substituting ''the
        Commissioner of Taxation'';

   (c)  by omitting from sub-section (5) ''the responsible Minister of the
        agency'' and substituting ''the Minister who is the responsible
        Minister in relation to the Commissioner of Taxation'';

   (d)  by omitting from sub-section (5) ''the agency'' (second occurring) and
        substituting ''the Commissioner of Taxation'';

   (e)  by omitting from sub-section (6) ''responsible Minister of the agency
        concerned'' and substituting ''Minister who is the responsible
        Minister in relation to the Commissioner of Taxation'';

   (f)  by omitting from sub-section (6) ''an agency'' and substituting ''the
        Commissioner of Taxation'';

   (g)  by omitting from sub-section (6) ''the agency'' (second and third
        occurring) and substituting ''the Commissioner of Taxation'';

   (h)  by omitting from sub-section (6) ''its'' (wherever occurring) and
        substituting ''his''; and

   (j)  by omitting sub-section (8) and substituting the following
        sub-section:

''(8) Where a person makes a request to inspect or to purchase a document of
an agency concerning a particular enactment or scheme, being a document of a
kind to which this section applies, the principal officer of the agency shall
take all reasonable steps to ensure that the attention of that person is drawn
to any document of the agency concerning that enactment or scheme that is
relevant to the request and has become a document to which this section
applies since the last occasion on which a statement in respect of documents
of the agency was published in the Gazette in pursuance of sub-section (2).''.