Application of section 13 RTI Act

To be a document of a Minister, a document must:

• relate to the affairs of an agency and be in the Minister’s physical possession or legal control or be one the Minister is entitled to access; and
• must not be a document of an agency or a document to which the RTI Act does not apply.

Refer to Documents of an agency and documents of a Minister, What is an agency?, and Documents of a former Minister for guidance on applying this section.