Exempt documents for the purposes of this Part
31B Exempt documents for the purposes of this Part
A document is exempt for the purposes of this Part if:
it is an exempt document under Division 2; or
it is conditionally exempt under Division 3, and access to the document would, on balance, be contrary to the public interest for the purposes of subsection 11A(5).
A document is an exempt document for the purposes of this Act (see subsection 4(1)) if:
it is exempt under this section; or
it is exempt because of section 7 (exemption of certain persons and bodies); or
it is an official document of a Minister that contains matters not relating to the affairs of an agency or a Department of State.
Access must generally be given to a conditionally exempt document unless it would be contrary to the public interest (see section 11A).
23 Section 32
After “exempt documents” (wherever occurring), insert “, or are conditionally exempt”.
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See also subsection 4(10).
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