Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) A request for information may be made to any agency or Minister that has a record containing the information.
(2) If a request is made to an agency or a Minister and the subject-matter of the information requested is more closely connected with the functions of another agency or Minister the agency or Minister to which the request was made shall –
(a) promptly transfer the request to that other agency or Minister and inform the person making the request accordingly; and
(b) if it is necessary to do so in order to enable that other agency or Minister to deal with the request – send the record containing the information to that agency or Minister.
(3) If a request is transferred to an agency or Minister, it is to be taken, for the purpose of section 16, to be a request made to that agency or Minister and received by the agency or Minister –
whichever first occurs.(a) at the time at which the transfer was made; or
(b) at the expiration of 14 days after the date of the original request –
(4) If a request is made to the Archives Office for information contained in a record to which section 11(1) applies, the Archives Office shall promptly transfer the request to the agency taken, by virtue of that subsection, to be in possession of that record and shall inform the applicant accordingly.