Freedom of InformationNo. 3, 1982
"exempt document" means—
- (a) a document which, by virtue of a provision of Part IV, is an exempt document;
- (b) a document in respect of which, by virtue of section 7 or regulations made in accordance with that section, an agency is exempt from the operation of this Act; or
- (c) an official document of a Minister that contains some matter that does not relate to the affairs of an agency or of a Department of State;
"exempt matter" means matter the inclusion of which in a document causes the document to be an exempt document;
"officer", in relation to an agency, includes a member of the agency or a member of the staff of the agency;
"official document of a Minister" or "official document of the Minister" means a document in the possession of a Minister, or in the possession of the Minister concerned, as the case requires, that relates to the affairs of an agency or of a Department of State and, for the purposes of this definition, a Minister shall be deemed to be in possession of a document that has passed from his possession if he is entitled to access to the document and the document is not a document of an agency;
"Ombudsman" means the Commonwealth Ombudsman;
"Ordinance", in relation to the Australian Capital Territory, includes a law of a State that applies, or the provisions of a law of a State that apply, in the Territory by virtue of an enactment;
"prescribed authority" means—
- (a) a body corporate, or an unincorporated body, established for a public purpose by, or in accordance with the provisions of, an enactment, other than—
- (i) an incorporated company or association;
- (ii) a body that, under sub-section (2), is not to be taken to be a prescribed authority for the purposes of this Act;
- (iii) the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly;
- (iv) the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory or the Executive Council of the Northern Territory;
- (v) the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Norfolk Island; or
- (vi) a Royal Commission;
- (b) any other body, whether incorporated or unincorporated, declared by the regulations to be a prescribed authority for the purposes of this Act, being—
- (i) a body established by the Governor-General or by a Minister; or
