FOI charges letters
Dear Department of Employment and Workplace Relations,
I request access to the following documents under the Freedom of Information Act 1982:
1. The most recent 30 notices of charges issued to FOI applicants.
For each of these 30 requests, if applicable, please also provide:
2. Any subsequent decisions regarding charges following applicant contention.
3. Any subsequent decisions regarding charges following internal or external review.
Please exclude the following information:
i) Personal information of FOI applicants.
Yours faithfully,
CR
Dear FOI Officer,
I am writing to amend the scope of my FOI request to assist with its processing.
As I wish to access only recent charge decisions, I have introduced a time frame and clarified the exclusions. I confirm the revised scope of my request as follows:
1. The most recent 30 notices of charges issued to FOI applicants.
For each of these 30 requests, if applicable, please also provide:
2. Any subsequent decisions regarding charges following applicant contention.
3. Any subsequent decisions regarding charges following internal or external review.
The time period for my request is from 1 July 2022 to 1 October 2024.
Please exclude the following information:
i) Personal information of FOI applicants, including supporting evidence or details of personal circumstances in a financial hardship contention.
ii) Emails that attached the charges notices/decision letters.
Please feel free to contact me if you require any clarification or have further questions regarding this request.
Yours sincerely,
CR
Dear CR
We refer to your request, received by the Department of Employment and
Workplace Relations (department) on 1 October 2024, for access under the
Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) to the following documents:
“1. The most recent 30 notices of charges issued to FOI applicants.
For each of these 30 requests, if applicable, please also provide:
2. Any subsequent decisions regarding charges following applicant
contention.
3. Any subsequent decisions regarding charges following internal or
external review.
Please exclude the following information:
i) Personal information of FOI applicants.”
On 8 October 2024, you revised your request as follows:
“1. The most recent 30 notices of charges issued to FOI
applicants.
For each of these 30 requests, if applicable, please also
provide:
2. Any subsequent decisions regarding charges following
applicant contention.
3. Any subsequent decisions regarding charges following
internal or external review.
The time period for my request is from 1 July 2022 to 1
October 2024.
Please exclude the following information:
i) Personal information of FOI applicants, including
supporting evidence or details of personal circumstances in a financial
hardship contention.
ii) Emails that attached the charges notices/decision
letters.”
Your reference number for this request is LEX 1204. Please include this
reference number in all correspondence relating to your request.
Timeframe
The 30-day statutory period for processing your request commenced from the
day after the department received your request. You should therefore
expect to receive a decision from us by 31 October 2024. The 30-day
timeframe may be extended with your agreement or where otherwise permitted
under the FOI Act (for example, if the department is required to undertake
third party consultation). We will notify you if this happens.
Charges
The department will advise you if a charge is payable to process your
request and the amount of any such charge as soon as practicable.
Your address
The FOI Act requires that you provide us with an address that we can send
notices to. You have advised your electronic address is
[1][FOI #12116 email]. Unless you tell us
otherwise, we will send all notices and correspondence to this address.
Disclosure log
Information released under the FOI Act may be published on a disclosure
log on our website, subject to certain exceptions. These exceptions
include where publication of personal, business, professional or
commercial information would be unreasonable.
Proposed irrelevant material (such as staff details) and material that is
out of scope
The department will treat the following as irrelevant under section
22(1)(a)(ii) of the FOI Act unless you tell us otherwise by the timeframe
outlined below:
• the names, signatures, identification numbers and direct contact
details of Commonwealth staff.
The department will treat any duplicate documents, drafts where there is a
final version available, and documents that are publicly available as out
of scope of your request.
The department will take the above approach when processing your request
unless you tell us otherwise by 3pm on 18 Friday October 2024.
Further assistance
If you have any questions about your request, please email
[2][email address].
Yours sincerely
Trudi
Information Law Team
Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
dewr.gov.au
Dear FOI Team,
I wish to provide clarification as to the scope of my request.
If a preliminary charge notice or decision of a charge is sent via the body of an email (as opposed to an email attachment) I wish to access a copy of that email, as well as the applicant's contention reasons.
Yours sincerely,
CR
Dear CR
We refer to your email below.
We consider this is a new freedom of information request and invite you to
submit a new request.
Yours sincerely
Trudi
Information Law Team
Australian Government Department of Employment and Workplace Relations
[1]dewr.gov.au
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