Tasmanian Consolidated Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1991 - SECT 19

      (1) Information requested under this Act may be provided –

(a) by giving the applicant a reasonable opportunity to inspect the record containing the information; or

(b) by providing the applicant with a copy of the record containing the information; or

(c) in the case of information contained in a record from which sounds or visual images can be reproduced – by giving the applicant a reasonable opportunity to hear the sounds or view the images; or

(d) in the case of information recorded or embodied in a record in a manner in which it can be reproduced – by providing the applicant with a transcript of the information.

      (2) If part of the information requested by an applicant is exempt information that part of the information that is not exempt information shall not be supplied to the applicant unless the applicant –

(a) requests that the information be supplied; or

(b) indicated when making the request for information that the applicant wants any of the information requested that is not exempt information.

      (3) A copy of a record that is provided with exempt information deleted shall have included on it a note to the effect that the copy is not a complete copy of the original record.

      (4) If –

(a) information requested under this Act is included with other information; and

(b) the information requested can be extracted from that other information by the use of a computer or other equipment usually available to the agency or Minister –

      (5) Without prejudice to subsection (1),if –

(a) an agency has information requested by an applicant in documentary form; and

(b) the applicant has indicated a preference for receiving the information in documentary form –