Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts(1) A document is an exempt document if its disclosure under this Act would involve the unreasonable disclosure of personal information about any person (including a deceased person).
(2) Subject to subsection (3), subsection (1) does not apply to a request by a person for access to a document only because of the inclusion in the document of matter relating to that person.
(3) Where—
(a) a request is made to an agency or Minister for access to a document of the agency, or an official document of the Minister, that contains information of a medical or psychiatric nature concerning the person making the request; and
(b) it appears to the principal officer of the agency, or to the Minister, as the case may be, that the disclosure of the information to that person might be prejudicial to the physical or mental health or wellbeing of that person;
the principal officer or Minister may direct that access to the document, so far as it contains that information, that would otherwise be given to that person is not to be given to that person but is to be given instead to a doctor to be nominated by that person.