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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 33A

Notice requirement where person is a child—document affecting personal privacy or information communicated in confidence

    (1)     For the purposes of sections 33 and 35, if the person who is required to be notified about a request is a child, the agency or Minister may notify either or both of the following—

        (a)     the child;

        (b)     a parent or guardian of the child.

S. 33A(2) inserted by No. 23/2017 s. 29.

    (2)     An agency that is an information sharing entity or a Minister responsible for that agency must not notify a parent or guardian of a child under subsection (1) if—

        (a)     the child is a primary person; and

        (b)     the parent or guardian is a person of concern or is alleged to pose a risk of family violence to that child .

S. 33A(3) inserted by No. 23/2017 s. 29.

    (3)     In this section—

person of concern has the meaning given in section 144B of the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 ;

primary person has the meaning given in section 144E of the Family Violence Protection Act 2008 .



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