ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT
(SHOWING AMENDMENTS MADE BY ACT 5/2003)
(g) consists of personal recommendations or evaluations, character references or personnel
evaluations concerning the third party; or
(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 15; 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; 16
(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
15
Paragraph amended by s. 4 of Act 5/2003.
16
Paragraph substituted by s. 4 of Act 5/2003.
17
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