Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2016 (NO. 55 OF 2016) - SECT 6

The objects of this Act are to—

        (a)     provide a right of access to government information unless access to the information would, on balance, be contrary to the public interest; and

        (b)     recognise the importance of public access to government information for the proper working of representative democracy; and

        (c)     enable the public to participate more effectively in government processes and to promote improved decision-making within government; and

        (d)     make the people and bodies that are responsible for governing the Territory more accountable to the public; and

        (e)     ensure that, to the fullest extent possible, government information is freely and publicly available to everyone; and

        (f)     facilitate and promote, promptly and at the lowest reasonable cost, the disclosure of the maximum amount of government information; and

        (g)     ensure that personal information held by the Territory is accurate, complete, up-to-date and not misleading.