Victorian Consolidated Legislation

Freedom of Information Act 1982 - SECT 47

Notice to be added to the record

47. Notice to be added to the record



Where a notice is given to an agency or Minister under section 46-

   (a)  the agency or Minister shall ensure that a notation as required by the
        notice is added to the record; and

   (b)  if any information in the part of the record to which the notation
        relates is disclosed to a person (including another agency or
        Minister) by the agency or Minister, the agency or Minister shall
        ensure that there is also furnished to that person, with the document
        containing the information, a statement-

   (i)  stating that the person to whom the information relates claims that
        the information is incomplete, incorrect, out of date or misleading,
        as the case may be; and

   (ii) giving particulars of the notation-

and may, if the agency or Minister considers it appropriate to do so, include
in the statement the reasons of the agency or Minister for not amending the
part of the record from which the information is taken.