Freedom of Information Act 1982

PART IV - EXEMPT DOCUMENTS  

Division 1 - Preliminary  

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Div 1 inserted by No 51 of 2010, s 3 and Sch 3 item 22, applicable in relation to requests for access made under section   15 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 that are received at or after 1 November 2010.

SECTION 31B  

31B   Exempt documents for the purposes of this Part  

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A document is exempt for the purposes of this Part if:

(a) it is an exempt document under Division 2 ; or

(b) it is conditionally exempt under Division 3 , and access to the document would, on balance, be contrary to the public interest for the purposes of subsection 11A(5) .

Note 1:

A document is an exempt document for the purposes of this Act (see subsection 4(1) ) if:

(a) it is exempt under this section; or

(b) it is exempt because of section 7 (exemption of certain persons and bodies); or

(c) it is an official document of a Minister that contains matters not relating to the affairs of an agency or a Department of State.

Note 2:

Access must generally be given to a conditionally exempt document unless it would be contrary to the public interest (see section 11A ).

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S 31B inserted by No 51 of 2010, s 3 and Sch 4 item 22, applicable in relation to requests for access made under section   15 of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 that are received at or after 1 November 2010.

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