Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (AMENDMENT) ACT (NO. 4 OF 1992) - SECT 3

3. Section 14 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end the following subsection:

“(5) Where—

        (a)     a person requests access to a document under this section;

        (b)     the request is not accompanied by any application fee; and

        (c)     the request is accompanied by an application for remission under section 30 of any relevant fee;

the request for access is to be taken to be in accordance with this section unless and until the agency has taken all reasonable steps to notify the applicant that the fee is not to be remitted in full.”.