Right to Information Act 2009

This section applies if—

an agency or Minister has asked an applicant for internal review for a further specified period to consider the applicant’s internal review application under section 82A(2); and

the internal review processing period for the application disregarding the further specified period has ended; and

the further specified period has not ended; and

the agency or Minister has not given the applicant written notice of a decision on the application.

The applicant for internal review may apply for external review as if—

the internal review processing period for the internal review application does not include the further specified period;

the agency’s principal officer or the Minister has made a decision affirming the original decision at the end of the internal review processing period mentioned in paragraph (a);

the applicant has been given written notice of the decision affirming the original decision at the end of the internal review processing period mentioned in paragraph (a).

If the applicant for internal review applies for an external review under subsection (2)—

the agency’s principal officer or the Minister is taken to have made a decision affirming the original decision at the end of the internal review processing period mentioned in subsection (2)(a); and

this Act applies in relation to the decision taken to have been made under paragraph (a) as if it were a decision taken to have been made under section 83(2)—

subject to subsection (4);

with any necessary changes.

The agency’s principal officer or the