New South Wales Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION (PUBLIC ACCESS) ACT 2009 - SECT 20

20 Agencies must have agency information guide

(1) An agency (other than a Minister) must have a guide (its "agency information guide") that:

(a) describes the structure and functions of the agency, and

(b) describes the ways in which the functions (including, in particular, the decision-making functions) of the agency affect members of the public, and

(c) specifies any arrangements that exist to enable members of the public to participate in the formulation of the agency’s policy and the exercise of the agency’s functions, and

(d) identifies the various kinds of government information held by the agency, and

(e) identifies the kinds of government information held by the agency that the agency makes (or will make) publicly available, and

(f) specifies the manner in which the agency makes (or will make) government information publicly available, and

(g) identifies the kinds of information that are (or will be) made publicly available free of charge and those kinds for which a charge is (or will be) imposed.

(2) An agency must make government information publicly available as provided by its agency information guide.

(3) The Director-General of the Department of Local Government may, in consultation with the Information Commissioner, adopt mandatory provisions for inclusion in the agency information guide of local authorities. The agency information guide of a local authority must include any such mandatory provision unless the Director-General otherwise approves in a particular case.