Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (FEES AND CHARGES) REGULATIONS - REG 8

                Where:

                (a)    access to a document to which a request relates may be provided in any of 2 or more forms;

               (b)    the applicant has not requested access to the document in a particular form; and

                (c)    the amount of the charge or charges that, but for this regulation, the applicant would be liable to pay in respect of the request and the provision of access, in the form selected by the relevant agency or the relevant Minister, to the document exceeds the lowest amount (in this regulation referred to as the 'prescribed amount') of the charge or charges that the applicant would have been liable to pay in respect of the request and the provision of access to the document if access had been given in some other form;

the amount of the charge or charges that the applicant is liable to pay shall not exceed the prescribed amount.