Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 16:00:42 +1100 Subject: Re: FOIREQ22/00009 - Acknowledgment of your FOI request [SEC=OFFICIAL] From: Trent Morrison-Francis <[FOI #8266 email]> To: Legal <[email address]> Dear Legal, Sorry about the delay in responding to this email. Your assumptions are correct. Yours sincerely, Trent Morrison-Francis -----Original Message----- Our reference: FOIREQ22/00009 Dear Trent Morrison-Francis Freedom of Information request I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) (the FOI Act) and received by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) on 7 January 2022. Scope of your request In your email you seek access to the following:                 “Please take this request for any documents that your department holds in relation to any "Exemptions" or "Wavers" as defined by the Webster Dictionary or socially accepted definitions of the words in the country of Australia to comply with any legislation that your office has powers, authority or manages under legislation for its management as a superannuation provider.   To remove any doubt we are asking for all schemes that Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation manages including   CSS ABN: 19 415 776 361 RSE: R1004649   DFRDB ABN: 39 798 362 763   Military Super ABN: 50 925 523 120 RSE: R1000306   ADF Super ABN: 90 302 247 344 RSE R1077063   ADF Cover ABN: 64 250 674 722   The period for the request relates to all documents created on or after the 01st January 2017 by either your office and or the Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation (where practicable if your office is not the creator of the documents).   Yours faithfully,   Trent Morrison-Francis” We have interpreted the scope of your request as being for “all documents the OAIC holds in relation to any exemptions or waivers the OAIC receives as a superannuation provider created on or after 1 January 2017 up to date of your FOI request on 7 January 2022.” Can you please confirm that our interpretation is correct? I would greatly appreciate your response as soon as possible but by no later than 24 January 2022. If we do not hear from you by this date we will continue to process the request in accordance with the above interpretation. In order to process your request as efficiently as possible, I will exclude duplicates and early parts of email streams that are captured in later email streams from the scope of this request, unless you advise me otherwise. We will not identify you as the FOI applicant during any consultation process. However, documents that are within the scope of your request that we may need to consult third parties about may contain your personal information. Timeframes for dealing with your request Section 15 of the FOI Act requires this office to process your request no later than 30 days after the day we receive it. 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