Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 No. 3 of 1982 - SECT 50

50. (1) Where an agency to which or Minister to whom a request is made under
section 48 decides to amend the record of information to which the request
relates, the agency or Minister may, in its or his discretion, make the
amendment either by altering the record or by adding an appropriate notation
to the record.

(2) Where an agency or Minister amends a record by adding a notation to the
record, the notation shall -

   (a)  specify the respects in which the information is incomplete,
        incorrect,
out of date or misleading; and

   (b)  in a case where the information is claimed to be out of date - set out
such information as is required to bring the information up to date.

(3) Where a request is made to an agency or Minister under section 48, the
agency or Minister shall take all reasonable steps to enable the claimant to
be notified of a decision on the request as soon as practicable but in any
case not later than 30 days after the day on which the request is received by
or on behalf of the agency or Minister.

(4) Section 23 applies in relation to a decision in respect of a request made
under section 48.

(5) Section 26 applies in relation to a decision made under this Part refusing
to amend a record in like manner as it applies in relation to a decision made
under Part III refusing to grant access to a document in accordance with a
request made in accordance with sub-section 15 (1).