2022-02-08 - S&O Agenda - Item 1 - ATTACHMENT 3 - 2021 DELEGATIONS OF AUTHORITY ANNUAL REVIEW REPORT

DESCRIPTION OF POWER DELEGATED                                                  LEGISLATION

Power, as agency, to not include any exempt information or contrary to public Section 73(3)
interest information in the notice given under section 73(1) Information Privacy
Act.
Power, as agency, if a decision to amend the document is made, to make the      Section 74
amendment by altering the personal information or adding an appropriate
notation to the personal information.
Power, as agency, to waive an access charge.                                    Sections 80, 81
                                                                                and 82
Power, as agency, to refuse to give access to a document in a form requested, Section 83(4)
if it would:
(a) interfere unreasonably with Council’s operations, or
(b) be detrimental to the preservation of the document, or
(c) be inappropriate having regard to the physical nature of the document;
        or
(d) involve an infringement of the copyright of a person other than the State,
and give access in another form.
Power, as agency, to extend the period in which an applicant may access a       Section 84(2)
document.
Power, as agency, to defer giving access to a document for a reasonable         Section 87
period if the document was prepared:
(a) for presentation to the Assembly or a committee of the Assembly; or
(b) for release to the media; or
(c) solely for inclusion in a document prepared for a purpose in (a) or (b).
Power, as agency, to delete irrelevant information from a copy of a requested   Section 88
document when giving access to that requested document, if the agency
considers it is reasonably practicable to give access to the copy.
Power, as agency, to give access to a copy of a document from which the         Section 89
exempt information has been deleted.
Power, as agency, to give access to a copy of a document from which the         Section 90
contrary to public interest information has been deleted.
Power, as agency, to direct access to the document be given instead to an Section 92(2)
appropriately qualified healthcare professional nominated by the applicant and
approved by the agency, where access was refused under section 47(3)(d) of
the Right to Information Act, as applied under the Information Privacy Act.
Power, as agency, to conduct a particular further search or to conduct further Section 115
searches directed by the information commissioner.
Power, as agency, to apply to the information commissioner for declaration      Section 127
that at person is a vexatious applicant.
Power, as agency, to apply to the information commissioner for approval to      Section 157
waive or modify the obligation to comply with the privacy principles.
Power, as agency, to ask the information commissioner to extend the time        Section 159
within which to take action stated in a compliance notice.

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