Commonwealth: Parliamentary Service Amendment (Freedom of Information) Act 2013 (Cth)

Parliamentary Service Amendment (Freedom of Information) Act 2013 No. 97, 2013 An Act to amend the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, and for related purposes Contents 1 Short title 2 Commencement 3 Schedule(s) Schedule 1—Amendments Parliamentary Service Act 1999 Parliamentary Service Amendment (Freedom of Information) Act 2013 No. 97, 2013 An Act to amend the Parliamentary Service Act 1999, and for related purposes [Assented to 28 June 2013] The Parliament of Australia enacts: 1 Short title This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Service Amendment (Freedom of Information) Act 2013. 2 Commencement This Act commences on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 3 Schedule(s) Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms. Schedule 1—Amendments Parliamentary Service Act 1999 1 Before section 69 Insert: 68A Departments and office holders not prescribed authorities for Freedom of Information Act purposes None of the following is a prescribed authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982: (a) a Department of the Parliament that is established under this Act; (b) a person who holds, or performs the duties of, an office established under this Act. 2 Transitional The Freedom of Information Act 1982 is taken to have had the effect it would have had if: (a) each Department of the Parliament established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1999 had been taken not to have been a prescribed authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 at all times after the Department was established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1999; and (b) each person who held, or performed the duties of, an office established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1999 had been taken not to have been a prescribed authority for the purposes of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 by virtue of his or her holding, or performing the duties of, that office. [Minister's second reading speech made in— House of Representatives on 29 May 2013 Senate on 17 June 2013] (145/13)