New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1989 - SECT 15

15 Availability of certain documents

(1) An agency shall cause copies of:

(a) its most recent statement of affairs, and

(b) its most recent summary of affairs, and

(c) each of its policy documents,

to be made available for inspection and purchase by members of the public.

(2) Nothing in this section prevents an agency from deleting from the copies of any policy document any information that is of such a nature that its inclusion in the document would cause the document to be an exempt document otherwise than by virtue of clause 9 or 10 of Schedule 1.

(3) A person is not to be subjected to any prejudice because of the application of the provisions of an agency’s policy document (other than such of those provisions as the agency is permitted to delete from the copies of the document that are available for inspection and purchase by members of the public) to any act or omission of the person if, at the time of the act or omission:

(a) the policy document was not available for inspection and purchase, and

(b) the person was not aware of those provisions, and

(c) the person could lawfully have avoided the prejudice had the person been aware of those provisions.

(4) During the period of 12 months following the commencement of this section:

(a) an agency is required to comply with subsection (1) only to such extent as is reasonably practicable, and

(b) subsection (3) does not have effect.