Information Act 2002

(1) Within 30 days after receiving an application in accordance with section 18, a public sector organisation must:

(a) consider the application and make a decision about it in accordance with this Division; and

(2) The notice under subsection (1)(b) is to be in accordance with section 20.

(3) If the applicant is not notified in accordance with this section within 30 days after making the application, the public sector organisation is taken to have refused access to the information.

(4) The kinds of decisions the public sector organisation may make about the application are set out in Subdivision 2 (What decisions may be made in relation to an application?).

(5) The public sector organisation is not required to consider or make a decision about an application made by a person declared under section 42 to be a vexatious applicant in relation to the organisation other than in accordance with the declaration.

(6) Subject to section 17(2), the public sector organisation may request the applicant to provide details additional to those specified in the application in accordance with section 18(2)(c) to enable the organisation to more particularly identify the information to which access is being sought.

(7) If the applicant does not provide the additional details within 30 days after they are requested under subsection (6), the public sector organisation is taken to have refused access.