Parliamentary Workplace Support Service (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2023 (70 of 2023)

Schedule 1   Consequential amendments

Freedom of Information Act 1982

9   After subsection 7(2DB)

Insert:

(2DC) A Minister and an agency are exempt from the operation of this Act in relation to the following documents (regardless of when the documents were brought into existence):

(a) a document given to, or received by, a body listed in subsection (2AAA) in connection with the performance of the body's functions;

(b) a document brought into existence by a body listed in subsection (2AAA).

(2DD) A Minister and an agency are not exempt under paragraph (2DC)(a) from the operation of this Act in relation to documents created other than in connection with the performance of the functions of a body listed in subsection (2AAA) to which a right of access otherwise exists or existed under this Act.