INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2009 - SECT 67
Grounds on which access may be refused
INFORMATION PRIVACY ACT 2009 - SECT 67
Grounds on which access may be refused
67 Grounds on which access may be refused
(1) An agency may refuse access to a document of the agency and a Minister may
refuse access to a document of the Minister in the same way and to the same
extent the agency or Minister could refuse access to the document under the
Right to Information Act , section 47 were the document to be the subject of
an access application under that Act.
Note—
See the Right to Information
Act , section 47 (Grounds on which access may be refused). Generally, the
grounds for refusal relate to issues concerning exempt information, the public
interest, a child or applicant’s best interests, documents being
non-existent or unable to be located and other availability of access to
documents. However, see also section 4(Act not intended to prevent other
accessing or amendment of personal information) of this Act.
(2) It is the
Parliament’s intention that—
(a) the grounds on which access may be
refused under the Right to Information Act , as applied under this Act, are to
be interpreted narrowly; and
(b) an agency or Minister may give access to a
document even if a ground on which access may be refused applies.
