Victorian Current Acts

PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION ACT 2014 - SECT 83J

    (1)     Without limiting what is a reasonable excuse for the purposes of section 83H, it is a reasonable excuse for a person to refuse or fail to comply with a requirement of the notice if—

        (a)     the information or document—

              (i)     is an exempt document under section 28 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 ; or

              (ii)     is information that if included in a document would make that document an exempt document under that section 28; or

        (b)     the information or document is subject to legal professional privilege or client legal privilege.

    (2)     The Secretary to the Department of Premier and Cabinet may certify that information or a document described in subsection (1)(a)—

        (a)     in the case of information, is information which, if included in a document, would make the document an exempt document
of a kind referred to in section 28(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 ;

        (b)     in the case of a document, is or, if it existed, would be an exempt document of a kind referred to in section 28(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 .

S. 83K inserted by No. 20/2017 s. 88.