Right to Information Act 2009

An agency must publish a scheme (a publication scheme)—

setting out the following details—

the agency’s structure and functions;

how the agency’s functions affect members of the public;

any arrangements that enable members of the public to engage with the agency’s functions;

the types of information held by the agency;

the types of information the agency makes publicly available and how that information is made available;

procedures for asking for information, including, for example, any fee or charge that may be payable; and

publishing information about the agency that is prescribed by regulation to the extent the information is held by the agency.

An agency must, as far as is reasonably practicable, publish the agency’s publication scheme on an accessible agency website.

However, if it is not reasonably practicable for an agency to publish a part of the agency’s publication scheme on an accessible agency website, the agency must publish information on the accessible agency website about how a person may access the part of the agency’s publication scheme.

Nothing in this section prevents an agency from deleting exempt information or contrary to public interest information from the information published under this section.

In this section—

accessible by members of the public; and

operated by an agency.