What is an access refusal decision?
53A What is an access refusal decision?
An access refusal decision is any of the following decisions:
a decision refusing to give access to a document in accordance with a request;
a decision giving access to a document but not giving, in accordance with the request, access to all documents to which the request relates;
a decision purporting to give, in accordance with a request, access to all documents to which the request relates, but not actually giving that access;
a decision to defer the provision of access to a document (other than a document covered by paragraph 21(1)(d) (Parliament should be informed of contents));
a decision under section 29 relating to imposition of a charge or the amount of a charge;
a decision to give access to a document to a qualified person under subsection 47F(5);
a decision refusing to amend a record of personal information in accordance with an application made under section 48;
a decision refusing to annotate a record of personal information in accordance with an application made under section 48.
If a decision is not made on a request under section 15 within the time required by that section, a decision is taken to have been made to refuse to give access to a document in accordance with the request (see section 15AC).
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