Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PRIVACY ACT 1988 No. 119, 1988 - SECT 34

34. (1) The Commissioner shall not, in connection with the performance of the
functions referred to in section 27, give to a person information as to the
existence or non-existence of a document where information as to the existence
or non-existence of that document would, if included in a document of an
agency, cause the last-mentioned document to be an exempt document by virtue
of section 33 or 33A, or subsection 37 (1), of the Freedom of
Information Act 1982.

(2) The Commissioner shall not, in connection with the performance of the
functions referred to in section 27, give to a person information:

   (a)  about the contents of a document of an agency, or the contents of an
        official document of a Minister, being a document that is an exempt
        document; or (b) about exempt matter contained in a document of an
        agency or in an official document of a Minister.

(3) An expression used in this section and in the Freedom of Information Act
1982 has the same meaning in this section as in that Act.