FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1989 - SECT 40 Applications for amendment of agencies' records

This legislation has been repealed.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1989 - SECT 40

40 Applications for amendment of agencies' records

An application for the amendment of an agency's records:

(a) shall be in writing, and

(b) shall specify that it is made under this Act, and

(c) shall contain such information as is reasonably necessary to enable the agency's document to which the applicant has been given access to be identified, and

(d) shall specify the respects in which the applicant claims the information contained in the document to be incomplete, incorrect, out of date or misleading, and

(e) if the application specifies that the applicant claims the information contained in the document to be incomplete or out of date--shall be accompanied by such information as the applicant claims is necessary to complete the agency's records or to bring them up to date, and

(f) shall specify an address in Australia to which notices under this Act should be sent, and

(g) shall be lodged at an office of the agency.