New South Wales Consolidated Acts

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 12A

12A Restriction of access to information

(1) If the general manager or any other member of the staff of a council decides that access to a document or other information held by the council should not be given to the public or a councillor, the person concerned must provide the council with written reasons for the restriction.

(2) The reasons must be publicly available.

(3) The council must review any such restriction no later than 3 months after it is imposed.

(4) The council must, at the request of any person made after the expiry of a period of 3 months after that review (or of a period of 3 months after the most recent of any subsequent reviews), carry out a further review of the restriction.

(5) The council must remove the restriction if, at any time:

(a) it finds that there are no grounds for the restriction, or

(b) access to the relevant document or other information is obtained under the Freedom of Information Act 1989 .

(6) A review is not required under this section if the restriction concerned has been removed.