ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT (as amended January 2008) (h) could reasonably be expected to reveal that the third party supplied, in confidence, a personal recommendation or evaluation, character reference or personnel evaluation; or (i) indicates the third party’s religious or political beliefs or associations 29; or (j) consists of the third party’s name, address, or telephone number and is to be used for mailing lists or solicitations by telephone or other means; or (k) constitutes intrusion into personal or family grief. (4) A disclosure of personal information shall not be considered an unreasonable invasion of a third party’s personal privacy if— (a) the third party has, in writing, consented to or requested the disclosure; or (b) there are compelling circumstances affecting another person’s health or safety and notice of disclosure is mailed to the last known address of the third party; or (c) disclosure is authorised by any enactment other than this Act; or (d) the disclosure is for purposes of research or the compilation of statistics in a manner authorised by law; or (e) the information concerns the third party’s position, functions or remuneration as an officer, employee or member of a public body; or (f) the disclosure reveals financial and other details of a contract to supply goods or services to a public body; or (g) the information is about expenses incurred by the third party while travelling on the business and at the expense of a public body; or (h) the disclosure reveals the details of, or the reasons for the grant by, a public body or authority of a licence, permit or other benefit whatsoever to the third party: Provided that⎯ (i) the reasons for the grant of the benefit shall not be disclosed if the law under which the benefit was granted provides that the grant is at the sole discretion of the public body or authority, or that the reasons for the grant or refusal of the benefit shall not be disclosed to the beneficiary or any other person; (ii) personal information supplied in support of the application for the benefit shall not be disclosed; 30 (i) the disclosure reveals details of a discretionary benefit of a financial nature granted to the third party by a public body, not including personal information that is supplied in support of an application for the benefit referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (3). (5) The head of a public body shall, when refusing to disclose personal information supplied in confidence as described in paragraph (f) of subsection (2), give the applicant a summary of the information, if such summary can be prepared without disclosing the identity of the third party who supplied such personal information. 31 29 Paragraph amended by s. 4 of Act 5/2003. 30 Paragraph substituted by s. 4 of Act 5/2003. 31 Subsection amended by s. 4 of Act 5/2003. 19

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