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FOI requests to the OAIC

Please note that this email address is only used for making requests to
obtain access to a document held by the OAIC pursuant to the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act). We will only action and respond to
emails making FOI requests to the OAIC. For information on how to make an
FOI request to the OAIC, and to ensure that your request complies with the
requirements of the FOI Act, please refer to the FOI page on the OAIC’s
website at:
[1]https://www.oaic.gov.au/about-us/access-...
Once your request has been assessed by the OAIC, and registered on our
system, a separate acknowledgement email will be sent to you with a
reference number.

The OAIC does not hold all documents of other Commonwealth government
agencies, other state government agencies, or private organisations.

Accordingly:

1)     if you are seeking to access documents of a particular Commonwealth
agency, you will need to make your request directly to the relevant
agency. For example, if you are requesting a copy of your visa records,
please make an FOI request and send it to the Department of Home Affairs.

2)     if you are seeking to access documents of a state or local
government agency, as each Australian state and territory also have
separate FOI legislation that governs information held by state government
agencies, please contact the relevant agency as to how to make an
application to access the documents. For example, if you are seeking
access to police report from NSW Police Force, it is governed by the
Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 (NSW) (GIPA Act), and you
will need to contact NSW police to find out how to make a GIPA application
for the police report.

3)     if you are seeking to access documents of a private organization,
which the FOI Act does not apply to, please contact the organization
directly to find out how to access the documents you are seeking. For
example, if you are seeking to access to hospital records or your medical
centre records, please contact these organisations directly. 

Enquiries and other matters

If your email relates to any of the following, please utilise our online
forms instead, which are available at
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-               Enquiry

-               Privacy  Complaint

-               Notifiable Data Breach

-               Consumer Data Right Complaint

-               FOI Complaint

-               Freedom of Information Review

-               Agency FOI Extension of Time Requests

-               Speech requests.

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Our reference: FOIREQ24/00008

Dear FOI Applicant,

Freedom of Information request

I refer to your request for access to documents made under the Freedom of
Information Act 1982 (Cth) (FOI Act).

You FOI request was received by the Office of the Australian Information
Commissioner (OAIC) on 28 December 2023. This means that a decision on
your FOI request is currently due on 29 January 2024.

Your FOI Request

Your FOI request was made in the following terms:

I am seeking, by Agency name, the number of reviews that are open as 31
December 2023.

For clarity, I would like to confirm that the term ‘reviews’ can be taken
to mean ‘Information Commissioner Reviews’. If you could please confirm or
amend this interpretation by Monday 8^th January, it would be greatly
appreciated.

If I don’t hear back from you by Monday 8^th January, the request will be
processed using the interpretation above.  

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, unless we seek your permission. 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 the OAIC to process your request no
later than 30 days after the day we receive it. However, section 15(6) of
the FOI Act allows us a further 30 days in situations where we need to
consult with third parties about certain information, such as business
documents or documents affecting their personal privacy.

The current decision due date for your request is 29 January 2024. We will
advise you if this timeframe is otherwise extended.

Request for an extension of time – Xmas and New Year period

The OAIC will be closed from Friday 22 December 2023 until Tuesday 2
January 2024.  There will also be a reduced number of staff available to
process FOI requests during this time.  We would appreciate it if you
would agree to a 14 day extension of time to process your FOI request. If
agreed, this will extend the time for the OAIC to process your request by
30 days until 12 February 2024.

Please note that we will continue to process your request as efficiently
as possible. We will endeavour to make a decision on your request earlier
than this extended date, if we are in a position to do so.

We ask that you please reply to this email, confirming your agreement to
this extension of time request, by no later than Monday 8th January 2024.

Disclosure Log
Documents released under the FOI Act may be published online on our
disclosure log, unless they contain personal or business information that
would be unreasonable to publish.

Yours sincerely

[1][IMG]   Lachlan Smith-Marks (he/him)

Paralegal

Office of the Australian Information Commissioner

Melbourne

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