Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00174:section:12
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00174
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 12
Character Range: 76454–78008

12  Part not to apply to certain documents
 (1) A person is not entitled to obtain access under this Part to:
 (a) a document, or a copy of a document, which is, under the Archives Act 1983, within the open access period within the meaning of that Act unless the document contains personal information (including personal information about a deceased person); or
 (b) a document that is open to public access, as part of a public register or otherwise, in accordance with an enactment or a Norfolk Island law, where that access is subject to a fee or other charge; or
 (ba) a document that is open to public access, as part of a land title register, in accordance with a law of a State or Territory where that access is subject to a fee or other charge; or
 (c) a document that is available for purchase by the public in accordance with arrangements made by an agency.
 (2) A person is not entitled to obtain access under this Part to a document or a part of a document that became a document of a Norfolk Island agency more than 5 years before the commencement of this subsection unless:
 (c) the document, or that part of the document, contains information that is:
 (i) personal information about that person; or
 (ii) information relating to that person's business, commercial or financial affairs; or
 (d) the document, or that part of the document, is a document or a part of a document access to which is reasonably necessary to enable a proper understanding of a document of a Norfolk Island agency to which that person has lawfully had access.