Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2012C00866:clause:4_53a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2012C00866
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 4 cl 53A
Character Range: 80129–81454

53A  What is an access refusal decision?
  An access refusal decision is any of the following decisions:
 (a) a decision refusing to give access to a document in accordance with a request;
 (b) a decision giving access to a document but not giving, in accordance with the request, access to all documents to which the request relates;
 (c) a decision purporting to give, in accordance with a request, access to all documents to which the request relates, but not actually giving that access;
 (d) a decision to defer the provision of access to a document (other than a document covered by paragraph 21(1)(d) (Parliament should be informed of contents));
 (e) a decision under section 29 relating to imposition of a charge or the amount of a charge;
 (f) a decision to give access to a document to a qualified person under subsection 47F(5);
 (g) a decision refusing to amend a record of personal information in accordance with an application made under section 48;
 (h) a decision refusing to annotate a record of personal information in accordance with an application made under section 48.
Note: If a decision is not made on a request under section 15 within the time required by that section, a decision is taken to have been made to refuse to give access to a document in accordance with the request (see section 15AC).