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:

Open access period for records
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:
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.
2	1980 or 1981	1 January 2011.
3	1982 or 1983	1 January 2012.
4	1984 or 1985	1 January 2013.
5	1986 or 1987	1 January 2014.
6	1988 or 1989	1 January 2015.
7	1990 or 1991	1 January 2016.
8	1992 or 1993	1 January 2017.
9	1994 or 1995	1 January 2018.
10	1996 or 1997	1 January 2019.
11	1998 or 1999	1 January 2020.
12	2000	1 January 2021.
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).

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