State Records Act 2000

Any right that a person may have to be given access to a restricted access archive is to be determined under the FOI Act.

A restricted access archive in the State archives collection is not a document of the Director or of the State Records Office for the purposes of the FOI Act.

If a restricted access archive is in the State archives collection any application for access to it must be made under the FOI Act; but if the government organisation to which the application must be made has been abolished or has ceased to be a government organisation, the application must be made —

to the successor (if any) to the former organisation that took over the function of the former organisation to which the restricted access archive most closely relates; or

to the Minister administering the Royal Commissions Act 1968 if the former organisation was a Royal Commission; or

to the Director in any other case.