Australian Meat Exports Pty Ltd and Queensland Abattoir Corporation

Application number:
1999 S0096
Decision date:
Tuesday, Mar 21, 2000

Australian Meat Exports Pty Ltd and Queensland Livestock and Meat Authority
 (1999 S0081, 21 March 2000) 

Australian Meat Exports Pty Ltd and Queensland Abattoir Corporation
 (1999 S0096, 21 March 2000) 

Australian Meat Exports Pty Ltd and Queensland Livestock and Meat Authority
(1999 S0097, 21 March 2000) 

These reviews all concerned 'sufficiency of search' issues. 

Applying the principles detailed in my decision in Shepherd and Department of Housing, Local Government and Planning (1994) 1 QAR 464, the Information Commissioner found that there were no reasonable grounds to believe that further documents falling within the terms of the relevant access applications, existed in the possession or control of the respondents. Further, the Information Commissioner found that the search efforts made by the respondents in an effort to locate any such documents were reasonable in all the circumstances of the respective cases.