Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1992 - SECT 74

74 .         Commissioner to ensure non-disclosure of certain matter

        (1)         In dealing with a complaint the Commissioner has to give such directions and do such things as the Commissioner thinks necessary to avoid the disclosure of —

            (a)         exempt matter; or

            (b)         information as to the existence or non-existence of a document containing matter exempt under clause 1, 2 or 5 of Schedule 1.

        (2)         The Commissioner is not to include exempt matter, or information of a kind referred to in subsection (1)(b), in a decision on a complaint or in reasons given for the decision.

        (3)         If the question of whether or not a document is a document of the agency is in issue, subsections (1) and (2) apply to the contents of the document as if those contents were exempt matter.