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INFORMATION ACT - SECT 82

Commissioner may serve compliance notice

82. Commissioner may serve compliance notice

(1) The Commissioner may serve a compliance notice on a public sector organisation if it appears to the Commissioner that -

(a) the organisation has contravened an IPP or a code of practice; and

(b) the contravention -

(i) is serious or flagrant; or

(ii) is of a kind that has been done by the organisation on at least 3 separate occasions within the previous 2 years.

(2) A compliance notice is a notice in writing requiring the public sector organisation to take specified action within a specified period to ensure the organisation complies with the IPP or code of practice in the future.

(3) The Commissioner may serve a compliance notice -

(a) on his or her own initiative; or

(b) because of a complaint made under Part 7, Division 1 (Complaints procedure).



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