Regulations may declare agency to be part of another agency
6 Regulations may declare agency to be part of another agency
The regulations may declare that a specified agency (the subsidiary agency) is not to be regarded as a separate agency and instead is to be regarded for the purposes of this Act as part of and included in another specified agency (the parent agency).
An access application made to the parent agency specifically for government information held by the subsidiary agency can be dealt with by the parent agency as an access application only for government information held by the subsidiary agency and not for government information otherwise held by the parent agency.
This provision refers to the regulations (The regulations may declare
). Made under this Act:
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandumSecond reading speech
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