Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009

When an agency (the former agency) ceases to exist—

any government information taken to be held by the former agency is instead taken to be held by the successor agency, and

an access application made to the former agency is taken to have been made to the successor agency, and

a decision under this Act made by the former agency is taken to have been made by the successor agency.

The successor agency to a former agency is—

another agency on which the former agency’s functions have devolved, or

if the former agency’s functions have devolved on 2 or more other agencies—the agency on which have devolved the functions to which the government information concerned most closely relates, or

if the former agency’s functions have not devolved on another agency—such other agency as the Minister administering this Act may, after consultation with the responsible Minister for that agency, nominate.

For the purpose of enabling an application or determination to be dealt with under this Act—

an agency to which an application is to be taken to have been made, or

an agency by which a determination is to be taken to have been made,