Division 3 Ministers’ records

48   Right to apply for amendment of Ministers’ records

A person to whom access to a Minister’s document has been given may apply for the amendment of that Minister’s records:

(a)  if the document contains information concerning the person’s personal affairs, and

(b)  if the information is available for use by that Minister in connection with that Minister’s administrative functions, and

(c)  if the information is, in the person’s opinion, incomplete, incorrect, out of date or misleading.

49   Applications for amendment of Ministers’ records

An application for the amendment of a Minister’s records:

(a)  shall be in writing, and

(b)  shall specify that it is made under this Act, and

(c)  shall contain such information as is reasonably necessary to enable that Minister’s document to which the applicant has been given access to be identified, and

(d)  shall specify the respects in which the applicant claims the information contained in the document to be incomplete, incorrect, out of date or misleading, and

(e)  if the application specifies that the applicant claims the information contained in the document to be incomplete or out of date—shall be accompanied by such information as the applicant claims is necessary to complete that Minister’s records or to bring them up to date, and

(f)  shall specify an address in Australia to which notices under this Act should be sent, and

(g)  shall be lodged at an office of the Minister.

50   Persons by whom applications to be dealt with etc

(1)  An application shall be dealt with:

(a)  by the Minister concerned, or

(b)  by such member of that Minister’s staff as that Minister may direct for that purpose, either generally or in a particular case.

(2)  An application shall be dealt with as soon as practicable (and, in any case, within 21 days) after it is received.

51   Division 1 to apply

The provisions of Division 1 (sections 39–41 excepted):

(a)  apply to an application for the amendment of a Minister’s records in the same way as they apply to an application for the amendment of an agency’s records, and

(b)  apply to a Minister to whom an application is made for the amendment of that Minister’s records in the same way as they apply to an agency to which an application is made for the amendment of the agency’s records.