Information Act 2002

(1) The Commissioner must provide the Minister with a report on the operations of the Commissioner's office during each financial year.

(a) contain details of anything done by or on behalf of a public sector organisation that, in the Commissioner's opinion, interfered with a person's privacy, whether what was done was the subject of a complaint or not; and

(b) specify the following in respect of each public sector organisation:

(i) the number of requests for access to government information the organisation received and dealt with;

(ii) the number of decisions the organisation made providing access to government information, providing access to edited copies of government information or refusing access to government information;

(iii) the number of times the organisation refused access to government information on the ground that it was exempt or that the applicant was not entitled to access under this Act;

(iv) the number of requests to correct personal information the organisation received and dealt with;

(v) the number of decisions the organisation made correcting personal information or refusing to correct personal information;

(vi) the number of requests for review under Part 3, Division 4 (Review by public sector organisation) the organisation received and the outcomes of those reviews;

(vii) the number of complaints made under Part 7 (Complaints to Information Commissioner) about the organisation and the outcomes of those complaints;

(viii) the number of times the Commissioner has granted an authorisation to the organisation and the nature of each of those authorisations;

(ix) the number of times the Commissioner has made a declaration under section 42 that a person is a vexatious applicant in relation to the organisation and the nature of each of those declarations;

(x) the fees charged by the organisation under this Act and details of any fees reduced or waived by the organisation; and

(c) specify the number of exemption certificates issued, including how many of those certificates neither confirmed nor denied the existence of the information the subject of the certificate; and

(d) include financial statements in respect of the operations of the Commissioner's office during the financial year to which the report relates; and

(e) include any matter that the Minister directs in writing the Commissioner to include in the report; and

(f) include any matter prescribed by regulation to be included in the report.

(3) A public sector organisation must comply with a request from the Commissioner for the information mentioned in subsection (2)(b)(i) to (vi) and (x).

(4) The Chief Minister must comply with a request from the Commissioner for the information mentioned in subsection (2)(c).

(5) The Commissioner must forward the report to the Minister within 3 months after the end of the financial year to which it relates.

(6) The Minister must table a copy of the report in the Legislative Assembly within 6 sitting days after receiving it.