Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) Where—
(a) a request is made to an agency or a Minister for access to a document; and
(b) the principal officer of the agency, or the Minister, has reasonable grounds to believe that the document would, if it were in the possession of a Commonwealth agency, be an exempt document under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cwlth), section 33, 33A, 34, 35, 39, 44 or 47;
the document is an exempt document and the principal officer or the Minister shall transfer the request to the Commonwealth agency whose functions are most closely related to the subject of the request and send the document to that agency.
(2) Where a document is so transferred, the principal officer shall notify the applicant of the transfer.