Victorian Numbered Acts

FAMILY VIOLENCE PROTECTION AMENDMENT (INFORMATION SHARING) ACT 2017 (NO. 23 OF 2017) - SECT 27

After section 56(5) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 insert —

    "(5A)     If an application under section 50(1) or (3D) relates to a document or part of a document in relation to which disclosure has been refused on the grounds that it would involve an unreasonable disclosure of personal affairs for the reason that it would increase the risk to a primary person's safety from family violence, the Tribunal may, if it regards it as appropriate to do so, announce its findings in terms which neither confirm nor deny the existence of the document in question.".

Division 2—Consequential amendment of Freedom of Information Act 1982