Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1989 - SECT 5

The regulations may specify that—

        (a)     each tribunal, authority or body identified in the regulations is to be taken to be a prescribed authority; or

        (b)     the holder of an office pertaining to a tribunal, authority or body identified in the regulations, being an office established by the enactment establishing the tribunal, authority or body, is not, in his or her capacity as the holder of that office, to be taken to be a prescribed authority or to be included in an administrative unit; or

        (c)     a registry or other office of or under the charge of a tribunal, authority or body declared by the regulations to be a prescribed authority, and the staff of such a registry or other office when acting in a capacity as members of that staff, shall be taken to be part of the tribunal, authority or body;

but this Act does not apply to any request for access to a document of a tribunal, authority or body so identified unless the document relates to matters of an administrative nature.