Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Freedom of Information Act 1982 - SECT 24A

Repeated requests

24A. Repeated requests



(1) An agency or Minister dealing with a request under Part III for access to
documents or under Part V for the correction or amendment of information may
refuse to grant access to documents or to amend a record in accordance with
the request, without having caused the processing of the request to have been
undertaken or at any later time, if the agency or Minister is satisfied that-

   (a)  the request is made by, or on behalf of, a person who, on at least one
        previous occasion, has made a request to the agency or Minister, or to
        a predecessor of the agency or Minister, for access to the same
        documents or the same information; and

   (b)  the request was refused and the Tribunal, on reviewing the decision to
        refuse the request, confirmed the decision; and

   (c)  there are not reasonable grounds for making the request again.

(2) An agency or Minister must give notice of a refusal under subsection (1)
and must inform the applicant of-

   (a)  the right to apply for review of the decision; and

   (b)  the authority to which the application for review should be made; and

   (c)  the time within which the application for review must be made.