Federal Register of Legislation
Freedom of Information (Charges) Regulations 2019
I, General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Ret'd), Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 21 March 2019
Peter Cosgrove Governor‑General
By His Excellency's Command
Christian Porter Attorney‑General
Contents Part 1—Preliminary 1 Name 2 Commencement 3 Authority 4 Schedule 2 5 Definitions Part 2—Charges 6 Charges 7 Exceptions to charges 8 Decision by agency or Minister that applicant liable to pay charge 9 Estimate of charge may be fixed in certain circumstances 10 Adjustment of estimate of charge fixed under section 9 11 Charge to be paid before access to documents is given 12 Deposits Part 3—Application, saving and transitional provisions 13 Application and saving provisions Schedule 1—Charges Part 1—Charges applicable in respect of a request for access to a document 1 Charges applicable in respect of a request for access to a document Part 2—Charges applicable in respect of the provision of access to a document 2 Charges applicable in respect of the provision of access to a document Schedule 2—Repeals Freedom of Information (Charges) Regulations 1982
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Name This instrument is the Freedom of Information (Charges) Regulations 2019.
2 Commencement (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Provisions Commencement Date/Details 1. The whole of this instrument 1 April 2019. 1 April 2019
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument. (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
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