FUNCTION AND CONTENT

This series was created by the Justice Division in the Attorney-General's Department to document the background of the Freedom of Information (FOI) ACT from 1972 onwards. This information covers:                                                                                              
Prepardeness of Department for the Act;
Training held and required;
Regulations fixing charges;
Matters to be included in the Act;
Public administration of the Act;
Public access to government records;
Minutes of the Inter-departmental Committee on Protection of 
 Confidential Information; and
Inter-departmental Committee on FOI Legislation;
Workload under a FOI Act;
Categories of documents exempt from FOI;
Relations between the Crown, the Ombudsman and Administrative
 Appeals Tribunal enforcement of right of access to official 
 information.

The documents are in a maroon coloured lever-arch folder.