Notice – invalid access application

Dear Miss Anonymous,

I refer to your access application made under the Government Information
(Public Access) Act 2009 (GIPA Act), which was received on 3 September
2024. You have requested

‘ a copy of the Interim Report on Maladministration at Liverpool City
Council’

I have considered your request to

 a. apply a waiver of the application fee under s51A & or
 b. accept the application as Informal.
 c. apply a 50% reduction under s66 due to public benefit.

In determining your request, I will not be applying a waiver of the
application fee required for a formal application. I also note that the
requested material will require consultation with a third party under 54
of the GIPA Act and will require the public interest test. The report you
are requesting access to has been removed from the authors website
following court proceedings, for this reason I will not be releasing it
informally.

As the material was produced by the Office of Local Government (OLG) you
may wish to contact their office directly. [1]Click here or contact on
(02) 4428 4100 or [2][email address].

Furthermore, a determination on s66 cannot be made until such time the
application is accepted as valid.

If you wish to proceed with your application the $30 application fee as
required by section 41(1)(c) of the GIPA Act. You can make payment of the
$30 fee by credit card over the phone by calling 1300 36 2170 . Please
quote reference 293917/2024.  Cheques or money orders should be made out
to Liverpool City Council.

Please provide the requested $30 application fee by 2 October 2024. If we
do not receive your response by then, we will close the file, and your
application will be discontinued.

Review rights

If you do not agree that your application is invalid, you may seek a
review of this decision. Your review rights are set out in the enclosed
information sheet.

You have three avenues of review: internal review by an officer of
Council, external review by the Information Commissioner or external
review by the Administrative and Equal Opportunity Division of the NSW
Civil and Administrative Tribunal (NCAT).

You should note that the time for seeking an internal review is 20 working
days, or 40 working days for external review, after the date of this
notice.

Further information about your review rights under the GIPA Act is
available by contacting the Information and Privacy Commission on free
call 1800 472 679, or from their website: [3]www.ipc.nsw.gov.au.

You can also contact the Administrative and Equal Opportunity Division of
NCAT by telephone on 1300 006 228 or go to their website:
[4]www.ncat.nsw.gov.au.

Kind regards

Meagan Choueiki​​​​
Access to Information Officer
[5][IMG] [6]02 8711 7733  |  [7]0461 329 639  |  [8][email address]
Customer Service: 1300 36 2170   |  50 Scott Street Liverpool ,  NSW   2170
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From: MissAnonymous <[FOI #11995 email]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 1:51 PM
To: LCC <[email address]>
Subject: Government Information (Public Access) request - Copy of the
interim state report re: alleged corruption and / or maladministration

Dear Liverpool City Council,

Application

This is an access application pursuant to Government Information (Public
Access) Act ("GIPA") made using special public benefit platform Right To
Know ("RTK")

All the applications, responses and any generated information is published
automatically to public at wide and remains the property of - we the
public or people of New South Wales.

Fees / Charges

Please waive the application fee pursuant to s. 66 and s.51 of GIPA Act

GIPA s.66(2) provides that the fee is to be waived if the information was
not in publcly available priori and given Right To Know autotomatically
publishes the received informaton.

Alternatively provide a payment mechanism for 50% reduced fee pursuant to
s.66

GIPA Act

A consideration must be given case-by-case basis to the fees and not
institute a blanket determination of the deposit or a fee. An agency
should not institute a general fee without case-by-case consideration.

Informal or Formal

If the waiver does not apply please also consider if you would be willing
to release this information informally under the GIPA given this
information should be in existing benchmark statistics.

Access Request

Please provide the copy of the interim report received from the state as
part of the NSW state launching the public inquiry to the affairs of
Liverpool City Council - as part of Section 430 of the Local Government
Act 1993 in relation to Liverpool City Council.

This information falls under the GIPA Act

Yours faithfully,

MissAnonymous

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