Palmer and Gold Coast City Council
(210813, 21 December 2009)
Terms of application for access
Assistant Information Commissioner Corby found that the terms of the applicant’s application for access should be read as seeking access to a specific Council file on the particular subject matter of a Council Officer’s attendance at the applicant’s property as a result of correspondence received by Council, and could not be read more broadly.
Section 28A(1) Refusal of Access – document nonexistent.
In light of the finding as to the terms of the applicant’s application for access, Assistant Information Commissioner Corby found that it was reasonable to be satisfied that no documents existed that were responsive to the terms of the access application, and therefore access could be refused to the matter sought on the basis that it did not exist.