Commonwealth Numbered Acts

A.C.T. SELF-GOVERNMENT (CONSEQUENTIAL PROVISIONS) ACT 1988 No. 109 of 1988 - SECT 29

29. (1) In this section:

"agency" has the same meaning as in the Act;

"corresponding enactment" means an enactment one of whose objects is to give
members of the public rights of access to official documents of the Territory
and its agencies;

"the Act" means the Freedom of Information Act 1982.

(2) Where:

   (a)  a corresponding enactment comes into force;

   (b)  before the commencement of that enactment, a person had made a request
        to an agency under section 15 of the Act for access to a document;

   (c)  the request had not been fully dealt with at the commencement of that
        enactment; and

   (d)  the document has been transferred to the Territory under this Act;
        then:

   (e)  the agency shall transfer the request to the appropriate Territory
        agency; and

   (f)  any steps taken under the Act in relation to the request have effect
        as if they had been taken under that enactment.