Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 31B

    A document is exempt for the purposes of this Part   if:

  (a)   it is an exempt document under Division   2; or

  (b)   it is conditionally exempt under Division   3, and access to the document would, on balance, be contrary to the public interest for the purposes of subsection   11A(5).

Note 1:   A document is an exempt document for the purposes of this Act (see subsection   4(1)) if:

(a)   it is exempt under this section; or

(b)   it is exempt because of section   7 (exemption of certain persons and bodies); or

(c)   it is an official document of a Minister that contains matters not relating to the affairs of an agency or a Department of State.

Note 2:   Access must generally be given to a conditionally exempt document unless it would be contrary to the public interest (see section   11A).