20321ab7_nformation_Commissioner___OAIC_reedom_of_Information_Act_1982_Issue_description
[FOI Act Part] Part VI — Internal review of decisions [FOI Act section] 54C (and 26) [Recommended action] The Act should be amended to ensure that the notice requirements relating to an internal review of a charges decision are appropriate for that type of decision. [Issue description] 
Section 54C(4) extends the notice requirements of s 26 to an internal review decision. However, a s 26 notice is in some ways unsuited to internally reviewed charges decisions. While a s 26 notice provides notification of an agency decision to provide access to some documents or to not provide access to documents, a notice following an internally reviewed charges decision requires an applicant to either pay a deposit or withdraw the request. It would be better if the notice of an internally reviewed charges decision specified the action required from the applicant for their request to proceed (for example, payment of a deposit) and a timeframe after which the request is taken to have been withdrawn if they take no action.
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