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 <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx>
To: Freedom of Information <
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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
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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 & Resources request email]
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