Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2009A00099:clause:1_34
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2009A00099
Segment Type: clause
Provision Reference: sch 1 cl 34
Character Range: 17703–19200

34  Application provision—items 4 to 32
(1) The amendments made by items 4 to 32 of this Schedule apply for the purposes of determining whether access to a document of an agency or an official document of a Minister will be given in accordance with a request made under subsection 15(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 and received by the agency or Minister on or after the commencement of this Schedule.
(2) A certificate issued in relation to a document under subsection 33(2), 33(4), 33A(2), 33A(4), 34(2), 34(4), 35(2), 35(4) or 36(3) of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (as in force immediately before the commencement of this Schedule) is, by force of this subitem, revoked in relation to the document on and from the time at which the first request for access to the document under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 is made on or after the commencement of this Schedule.
(3) To avoid doubt:
 (a) subitem (2) does not affect anything done in relation to, or in reliance on, a certificate mentioned in subitem (2) before the commencement of this Schedule; and
 (b) nothing prevents a person from making a request, on and after the commencement of this Schedule, for access to a document of an agency or an official document of a Minister under the Freedom of Information Act 1982 if:
 (i) before the commencement of this Schedule, the person made a request for access to the same document; and
 (ii) the request was refused in reliance on a certificate mentioned in subitem (2).