Minister to have access to information
11 Minister to have access to information
For parliamentary purposes or for the proper conduct of the Minister’s public business under this Act, the Minister is empowered —
to seek, obtain and have any information relevant to this Act in the possession of an administrative authority; and
where the information is in or on a document, to have, and to make and retain copies of, that document.
For the purposes of subsection (1) the Minister may —
request an administrative authority to furnish information to the Minister; and
request an administrative authority to give the Minister access to information; and
for the purposes of paragraph (b), make use of the staff of an administrative authority to obtain the information and furnish it to the Minister.
An administrative authority shall comply with a request under subsection (2) and make its staff and facilities available to the Minister for the purposes of paragraph (c) of that subsection.
In this section —
document includes any tape, disc or other device or medium on which information is recorded or stored mechanically, photographically, electronically or otherwise;
information means information specified, or of a description specified, by the Minister that relates to the functions of an administrative authority;
parliamentary purposes means the purpose of —
answering a question asked in a House of Parliament; or
complying with a written law, or an order or resolution of a House of Parliament, that requires information to be furnished to a House of Parliament.
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