83JReasonable excuse—cabinet documents and legal professional privilege

83J Reasonable excuse—cabinet documents and legal professional privilege (1) Without limiting what is a reasonable excuse for the purposes of section 83H, it is a reasonable excuse for a person to refuse or fail to comply with a requirement of the notice if— (a) the information or document— (i) is an exempt document under section 28 of the **Freedom of Information Act 1982**; or (ii) is information that if included in a document would make that document an exempt document under that section 28; or (b) the information or document is subject to legal professional privilege or client legal privilege. (2) The Secretary to the Department of Premier and Cabinet may certify that information or a document described in subsection (1)(a)— (a) in the case of information, is information which, if included in a document, would make the document an exempt document of a kind referred to in section 28(1) of the **Freedom of Information Act 1982**; (b) in the case of a document, is or, if it existed, would be an exempt document of a kind referred to in section 28(1) of the **Freedom of Information Act 1982**. S. 83K inserted by No. 20/2017 s. 88.