Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00174:section:51c:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00174
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 51C (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 166196–168323

must transfer the application to the other agency.
 (4) Where:
 (a) an application made under section 48 to an agency or a Minister concerns records of personal information contained in more than one document; and
 (b) one or more of those documents is a document to which subsection (1), (2) or (3) applies;
this section applies to each of those documents as if separate applications had been made to the agency or Minister in respect of records of personal information contained in each of those documents.
 (5) Where an application is transferred to an agency or Minister under this section, the agency or Minister making the transfer must:
 (a) inform the person making the application of the transfer; and
 (b) if it is necessary to do so in order to enable the other agency or Minister to deal with the application, send the document concerned to the other agency or Minister.
 (6) Where an application is transferred to an agency or a Minister under this section, the application is to be taken to be an application:
 (a) made to that agency or Minister under section 48; and
 (b) received by the agency or Minister at the time at which it was first received by an agency or Minister.
 (7) Where:
 (a) an application has been transferred to an agency or Minister in accordance with this section; and
 (b) the agency or Minister to whom the application has been transferred decides to amend or annotate, under this Part, a record of personal information to which the application relates;
the agency or Minister must, by written notice, notify the agency or Minister who made the transfer:
 (c) of that decision; and
 (d) of any amendment or annotation made by the first‑mentioned agency or Minister in relation to that record.
 (8) Where the agency or Minister receiving a notice under subsection (7) is in possession of a document containing the record of personal information to which the application relates, the agency or Minister must, upon receiving the notice, amend or annotate the record in the same manner as the record was amended or annotated by the agency or Minister to whom the application was transferred.