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Section 64 - Reporting by Information Commissioner

Guidelines

Annual reports

1.1

Every financial year, the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner (OVIC) prepares an annual report on the performance and exercise of the Information Commissioner’s functions and powers under the Act and under the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic).3 The annual report also reports on the operation of the FOI Act for that year.4

Read annual reports of the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner, the former Office of the Commissioner for Privacy and Data Protection, the former Office of the Freedom of Information Commissioner and historic annual reports on the operation of the FOI Act here.

Reporting on the operation of the Act

1.2

OVIC must report on the operation of the Act in its annual report. Section 64(2) lists the information that OVIC must include in an annual report when reporting on the operation of the Act for that financial year.

1.3

So that OVIC can report on the operation of the Act, OVIC requires agencies and Ministers to complete an online survey at the end of each financial year to collect this data.

Providing the annual report to Parliament

1.4

OVIC sends the annual report to Parliament to be tabled. At least one business day before sending the annual report to Parliament, OVIC must also give an advance copy of the annual report to the Minister and to the Secretary to the Department of Premier and Cabinet.32

  1. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(3) and Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic), section 116.
  2. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2).
  3. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(3) and Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic), section 116.
  4. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2).
  5. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(a).
  6. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(b).
  7. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(c).
  8. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(d).
  9. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(e).
  10. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(f).
  11. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(g).
  12. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(h).
  13. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(i) and 64(4).
  14. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(j).
  15. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(k).
  16. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(l).
  17. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(m).
  18. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(a).
  19. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(b).
  20. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(c).
  21. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(d).
  22. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(e).
  23. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(f).
  24. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(g).
  25. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(h).
  26. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(i) and 64(4).
  27. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(j).
  28. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(k).
  29. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(l).
  30. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(2)(m).
  31. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(5) and (6).
  32. Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic), section 64(5) and (6).

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