Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 07:03:48 +0000
Subject: Re: Your FOI request - Acknowledgement and Notice for Third Party Consultations - FOI 76142 [SEC=OFFICIAL]
From: John Smith <[FOI #12328 email]>
To: Freedom of Information <[Department of Industry, Science, Energy &amp; Resources request email]>

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Dear Freedom of Information,



I am only seeking information about the projects in your organisation (the Department of Industry, Science and Resources). As such, there are no "business affairs" of other organisations to consider, and so your s27 citation is misapplied. Please process the request as I wrote it. Yes, you can exclude publicly available information. I do not need duplicate documents.



Yours sincerely,



John Smith



-----Original Message-----



OFFICIAL







 Dear John,







 The Department of Industry, Science and Resources (the department) has

 received your Freedom of Information request of 15 November 2024

 (attached) for access to:







 This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act 1982. You may give

 notices by reply email. I am seeking a document or documents with a list

 of AI projects in internal use or ones recently [sic] trialed by the

 Department of Industry, Science and Resources, especially for the R&D tax

 incentive.







 This email is to acknowledge receipt of your request. Your reference is

 76142.







 Notice of Consultation







 Your request covers documents that contain information about the business

 affairs of certain organisations.







 Under section 27 of the FOI Act where a request is made for a document

 containing information about:







 o the business affairs of an organisation (section 27).







 and it appears the organisation may reasonably wish to contend that the

 information is exempt or conditionally exempt, the department must give

 the organisation a reasonable opportunity to make a submission in support

 of the contention.







 Under section 27of the FOI Act the department must have regard to any

 submissions made by the organisation before making a decision to give

 access to the document.







 Given that consultation with third parties is required, the statutory

 timeframe for processing your FOI request is extended by 30 days under

 subsection 15(6) of the FOI Act.







 As such, a decision is due to you on or before 14 January 2025.











 Further advice on processing your request







 To assist us to streamline the processing of your request we ask you to

 consider the following:







  1. Duplicate Documents:



 Under section 4(1) of the FOI Act, the definition of a document includes

 ‘any copy, including an part of any copy, of a reproduction or duplicate’.







 In order to process your request as efficiently as possible, the following

 will be excluded from your request unless you advise otherwise:







 o Duplicate documents;

 o early parts of email chains that are captured in later email chains.







  2. Publicly available documents:



 Under section 4(1) of the FOI Act, the definition of a document does not

 include ‘material maintained for reference purposes that is otherwise

 publicly available’.







 Please confirm if publicly available documents can be excluded from your

 request.







 We look forward to your response at your earliest convenience but no later

 than 5 December 2024.







 If you have any questions, please contact the FOI team.











 Pete







 Freedom of Information



 Chief Counsel & Integrity Division | Corporate & information Law Branch |

 Information Law



 GPO Box 2013 Canberra ACT 2601 | [1][Department of Industry, Science, Energy &amp; Resources request email]



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