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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2005 No. 28 - SECT 17

17 Amendment of s 27 (How applications are dealt with)

(1) Section 27(4), 'the agency or Minister is taken'--

omit, insert--

'the agency's principal officer or the Minister is taken'.

(2) Section 27(4) to (6), as amended--

renumber as section 27(5) to (7).

(3) Section 27(3)--

omit, insert--

'(3) If giving access to a document will disclose to the applicant matter the agency or Minister reasonably considers is not relevant to the application, the agency or Minister may delete the irrelevant matter from a copy of the document before giving access to the document.

'(4) The agency or Minister may give access to a document by giving access to a copy of the document with the irrelevant matter deleted only if the agency or Minister considers, from the application or after consultation with the applicant--

(a) the applicant would accept the copy; and
(b) it is reasonably practicable to give access to the copy.'.


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