Victorian Numbered Acts

JUSTICE LEGISLATION AMENDMENT (SYSTEM ENHANCEMENTS AND OTHER MATTERS) ACT 2021 (NO. 11 OF 2021) - SECT 140

    (1)     In section 5(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 insert the following definitions—

""authorised legal representative" of a person means an Australian legal practitioner who has been instructed by a person to receive documents on the person's behalf;

"destroy", in relation to a document provided to the Information Commissioner, or by the Information Commissioner to a person, by secure electronic means, means—

        (a)     to permanently delete the electronic communication from—

              (i)     all information systems on which the Information Commissioner held or stored that received document; and

              (ii)     all information systems on which the person who was provided with the document from the Information Commissioner held or stored that document; and

        (b)     to destroy any hard copy of the document;

"information system" has the same meaning as in the Electronic Transactions (Victoria) Act 2000 ;".

    (2)     In section 5(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 , in the definition of "agency", for "department" substitute "department,".