Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Act 2010 (51 of 2010)
Schedule 3 Exemptions
Part 1 Open access period amendments
Archives Act 1983
2 Subsection 3(7)
Repeal the subsection (including the note), substitute:
(7) For the purposes of this Act, subject to sections 22A and 22B, work out when a record is in the open access period in accordance with the following table:
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Open access period for records |
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Item |
If the record came into existence in any of the following years (ending on 31 December): |
the record is in the open access period on and after the following day: |
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1 |
a year (the creation year ) before 1980 |
1 January in the year that is 31 years after the creation year. Example: A record that came into existence in the year 1979 is in the open access period on and after 1 January 2010. |
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2 |
1980 or 1981 |
1 January 2011. |
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3 |
1982 or 1983 |
1 January 2012. |
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4 |
1984 or 1985 |
1 January 2013. |
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5 |
1986 or 1987 |
1 January 2014. |
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6 |
1988 or 1989 |
1 January 2015. |
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7 |
1990 or 1991 |
1 January 2016. |
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8 |
1992 or 1993 |
1 January 2017. |
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9 |
1994 or 1995 |
1 January 2018. |
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10 |
1996 or 1997 |
1 January 2019. |
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11 |
1998 or 1999 |
1 January 2020. |
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12 |
2000 |
1 January 2021. |
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13 |
a year (the creation year ) after 2000 |
1 January in the year that is 21 years after the creation year. Example: A record that came into existence in the year 2001 is in the open access period on and after 1 January 2022. |
Note: Cabinet notebooks and records containing Census information have different open access periods (see sections 22A and 22B).