98Annual report

98 Annual report (1) The Commissioner must provide the Minister with a report on the operations of the Commissioner's office during each financial year. (2) The report must: (a) contain details of anything done by or on behalf of a public sector organisation that, in the Commissioner's opinion, interfered with a person's privacy, whether what was done was the subject of a complaint or not; and (b) specify the following in respect of each public sector (i) the number of requests for access to government information the organisation received and dealt with; (ii) the number of decisions the organisation made providing access to government information, providing access to edited copies of government information or refusing access to government information; Information Act 2002 61 (iii) the number of times the organisation refused access to government information on the ground that it was exempt or that the applicant was not entitled to access under this Act; (iv) the number of requests to correct personal information the organisation received and dealt with; (v) the number of decisions the organisation made correcting personal information or refusing to correct personal information; (vi) the number of requests for review under Part 3, Division 4 (Review by public sector organisation) the organisation received and the outcomes of those reviews; (vii) the number of complaints made under Part 7 (Complaints to Information Commissioner) about the organisation and the outcomes of those complaints; (viii) the number of times the Commissioner has granted an authorisation to the organisation and the nature of each of those authorisations; (ix) the number of times the Commissioner has made a declaration under section 42 that a person is a vexatious applicant in relation to the organisation and the nature of each of those declarations; (x) the fees charged by the organisation under this Act and details of any fees reduced or waived by the organisation; and (c) specify the number of exemption certificates issued, including how many of those certificates neither confirmed nor denied the existence of the information the subject of the certificate; and (d) include financial statements in respect of the operations of the Commissioner's office during the financial year to which the report relates; and (e) include any matter that the Minister directs in writing the Commissioner to include in the report; and (f) include any matter prescribed by regulation to be included in the report. Information Act 2002 62 (3) A public sector organisation must comply with a request from the Commissioner for the information mentioned in subsection (2)(b)(i) to (vi) and (x). (4) The Chief Minister must comply with a request from the Commissioner for the information mentioned in subsection (2)(c). (5) The Commissioner must forward the report to the Minister within 3 months after the end of the financial year to which it relates. (6) The Minister must table a copy of the report in the Legislative Assembly within 6 sitting days after receiving it.