Dear Verity Pane,

I refer to your request, received by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs
(the department) on 3 May 2022, for access under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) to the following:

“I desire copy of the search minutes (excluding documents listed in the
schedule, if attached), LEX and TRIM entries for LEX 47367 and LEX 47465
and LEX 47867 and FOI 47338.

The personal information of any private individual acting in their
personal capacity (including myself and my email address) are exempt under
s 22.

I do not agree to the position titles or names of any official (whether
corporate or government) acting in those roles from being excluded under s
22.”
 

Your request was received by the department on 3 May 2022 and the 30 day
statutory period for processing your request commenced from the day after
that date. The period of 30 days may be extended if we need to consult
third parties or for other reasons permitted under the FOI Act. We will
advise you if this happens.

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
  [FOI #8852 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.

Further assistance

If you have any questions, please contact us using the following details:

Post:     Information Access Unit,

Client Access and Rehabilitation Branch

GPO Box 9998 BRISBANE  QLD   4001

Email:   [1][DVA request email]

Yours sincerely

Derek (Position Number 62255248)

Registration Officer

Information Access Unit

Client Access and Rehabilitation Branch

References

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Good afternoon Ms Pane,

Please find attached decision regarding LEX 49383.

Regards

Joshua

Position number: 62336363

A/Assistant Director

Information Access Unit

Client Access and Rehabilitation Branch

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

Dear Verity

The Department of Veterans’ Affairs (the department) has received your
request for internal review of the Department’s decision LEX 49383 under
the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act). Your internal review
request reads as follows:

Under section 54 of the FOI Act, I am writing for an internal review of
Department of Veterans' Affairs's FOI access refusal decision LEX 49383 of
24 May 2022.

I also did not limit the scope of my FOI to 'signed search minutes' as
stated in this decision. My FOI stated 'I desire copy of the search
minutes (excluding documents listed in the schedule, if attached), LEX and
TRIM entries for LEX 47367 and LEX 47465 and LEX 47867 and FOI 47338.'

That substituting of 'search minutes' for 'signed search minutes'
artificially and unlawfully reduced my scope for the purposes of declaring
the 'signed search minutes could not be found'.

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on
the Internet at this address:
[1]https://www.righttoknow.org.au/request/l...

Your request for internal review was received by the department on 9 June
2022 and the 30 day statutory period for processing your request commenced
from the day after that date.

Where possible, your request for internal review will be handled by an FOI
officer authorised decision-maker who was not involved in the original
decision.

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
[2][FOI #8852 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.

Further assistance

If you have any questions about your request, please email
[3][DVA request email]

Yours sincerely

Arthur

Position Number 62210944

Information Access Officer

Information Access Unit              

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

   [4][DVA request email]

Date 15 June 2022

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3. mailto:[DVA request email]
4. mailto:[DVA request email]

Dear Ms Pane,

Please find attached my decision for Internal review LEX 50199 and further
documents relating to this request.

If I can be of any further assistance regarding this request please
contact me by return email.

Kind regards

Amy (62232671)

Information Access Unit

Department of Veterans’ Affairs

e [1][email address]

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