20321ab7_nformation_Commissioner___OAIC_reedom_of_Information_Act_1982_Issue_description
[FOI Act Part] Part V — Amendment and annotation of personal records [FOI Act section] 49(c), 51A(d) [Recommended action] (If the proposal to remove Part V is not adopted) the requirement to 'specify an address in Australia to which a notice under this Part may be sent to the applicant' should be replaced with a requirement to 'give details of how notices under this Act may be sent to the applicant (for example, by providing an electronic address to which notices may be sent by electronic communication)' (as in ss 15(2)(c) and 54N(1)(a)). [Issue description] 
An application for amendment of records under s 49 (and for annotation under s 51A) requires the applicant to specify an address in Australia to which notices can be sent. This address requirement was removed for general FOI requests by the 2010 amendments. The FOI guidelines encourage agencies to be generous in their enforcement of this requirement (see [7.20]).
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