Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 53A

    An access refusal decision is any of the following decisions:

  (a)   a decision refusing to give access to a document in accordance with a request;

  (b)   a decision giving access to a document but not giving, in accordance with the request, access to all documents to which the request relates;

  (c)   a decision purporting to give, in accordance with a request, access to all documents to which the request relates, but not actually giving that access;

  (d)   a decision to defer the provision of access to a document (other than a document covered by paragraph   21(1)(d) (Parliament should be informed of contents));

  (e)   a decision under section   29 relating to imposition of a charge or the amount of a charge;

  (f)   a decision to give access to a document to a qualified person under subsection   47F(5);

  (g)   a decision refusing to amend a record of personal information in accordance with an application made under section   48;

  (h)   a decision refusing to annotate a record of personal information in accordance with an application made under section   48.

Note:   If a decision is not made on a request under section   15 within the time required by that section, a decision is taken to have been made to refuse to give access to a document in accordance with the request (see section   15AC).