FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 6B Establishment of the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 6B

    (1)     There is to be an Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner.

    (2)     The Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner consists of—

        (a)     the Information Commissioner; and

        (b)     the Public Access Deputy Commissioner; and

        (c)     the Privacy and Data Protection Deputy Commissioner appointed under section 8H of the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 ; and

        (d)     the staff employed and other persons engaged under section 6Q.

    (3)     Except where expressly provided in this Act or the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 —

        (a)     the Information Commissioner is not subject to the direction or control of the Minister in respect of the performance of the Information Commissioner's duties and functions and the exercise of the Information Commissioner's powers; and

        (b)     the Public Access Deputy Commissioner is not subject to the direction or control of the Minister in respect of the performance of the Deputy Commissioner's duties and functions and the exercise of the Deputy Commissioner's powers.

S. 6C substituted by No. 20/2017 s. 6.