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INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2009 - SECT 60
Effect on agency’s or Minister’s functions
60 Effect on agency’s or Minister’s functions
(1) An agency or Minister may refuse to deal with an access or amendment
application, or, if the agency or Minister is considering 2 or more access or
amendment applications by the applicant, all the applications, if the agency
or Minister considers the work involved in dealing with the application or all
the applications would, if carried out— (a) substantially and unreasonably
divert the resources of the agency from their use by the agency in the
performance of its functions; or
(b) interfere substantially and unreasonably
with the performance by the Minister of the Minister’s functions.
(2)
Without limiting the matters to which the agency or Minister may have regard
in making a decision under subsection (1) , the agency or Minister must have
regard to the resources that would have to be used— (a) in identifying,
locating or collating any document in the filing system of the agency or the
Minister’s office; or
(b) for an access application—in deciding whether
to give, refuse or defer access to any documents, or to give access to an
edited copy of any documents, including resources that would have to be
used— (i) in examining any document; or
(ii) in consulting in relation to
the application with a relevant third party under section 56 ; or
(c) in
making a copy, or edited copy, of any document; or
(d) in notifying any final
decision on the application.
(3) In deciding whether to refuse, under
subsection (1) , to deal with an access or amendment application, an agency or
Minister must not have regard to— (a) any reasons the applicant gives for
applying for access or amendment; or
(b) the agency’s or Minister’s
belief about what are the applicant’s reasons for applying for access or
amendment.
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