Commonwealth legislation

Freedom of Information (Document Review Tribunal) Regulations (Repeal)

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This Act has been repealed and is no longer in force. It is retained for historical reference.

Jurisdiction

Commonwealth

Act Number

433 of 1994

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What this does

This regulation repeals (cancels) the Freedom of Information (Document Review Tribunal) Regulations made in 1983. Those old regulations had set out the procedural rules for the Document Review Tribunal—a body that reviewed government decisions about whether to release documents under Freedom of Information (FOI) laws.

Why it matters

By 1994, the Document Review Tribunal had been absorbed into the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), which took over handling FOI reviews. This instrument is essentially "housekeeping"—it removes obsolete regulations from the statute book so that agencies and applicants don't need to check multiple sets of rules.

Who is affected

This mainly affects government agencies and people appealing FOI decisions. It simplifies the process by confirming that FOI reviews now follow the AAT's procedures rather than the old Document Review Tribunal rules.

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Statutory Rules 1994 No. 4331

Freedom of Information (Document Review Tribunal) Regulations (Repeal)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulation under the Freedom of Information Act 1982.

Dated 20 December 1994.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. KERR

Minister for Justice

1. Repeal of the Freedom of Information (Document Review Tribunal) Regulations

1.1 Statutory Rules 1983 No. 84 are repealed.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 December 1994.

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Statutory Rules 1994 No. 4331

Freedom of Information (Document Review Tribunal) Regulations (Repeal)

I, The Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulation under the Freedom of Information Act 1982.

Dated 20 December 1994.

BILL HAYDEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

D. KERR

Minister for Justice

1. Repeal of the Freedom of Information (Document Review Tribunal) Regulations

1.1 Statutory Rules 1983 No. 84 are repealed.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 23 December 1994.