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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 6A

Relationship with other laws

S. 6A(1) amended by No. 60/2014 s. 140(Sch. 3 item 20.1).

    (1)     This Act does not affect the operation of any other Act or law (including, but not limited to, the Public Records Act 1973 , the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 and the Health Records Act 2001 )—

        (a)     that requires information concerning documents of an agency or official documents of a Minister to be made available to the public; or

        (b)     that enables a person to obtain access to a document of an agency or an official document of a Minister.

    (2)     Nothing in this section limits or affects section 15 or 16.

Note to s. 6A amended by No. 60/2014 s. 140(Sch. 3 item 20.2).

Note

Section 10A of the Public Records Act 1973 provides that nothing in that Act prevents a person from giving access to records otherwise than in accordance with that Act where the person can properly do so or is required by law to do so. See also sections 6 and 14 of the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 and sections 7 and  16 of the Health Records Act 2001 .

Pt 1A (Heading and ss 6B6K) inserted by No. 6/2012 s. 6, amended by No. 59/2014
ss 5- 9, substituted as Pt 1A (Heading and ss 6B6T) by No. 20/2017 s. 6.

Part IA—Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner

S. 6B substituted by No. 20/2017 s. 6.



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