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Special ICON alert: Revised IC review Procedure Directions and Part 10 of the FOI Guidelines commencing today 1 July 2024

As shared in previous ICON Alerts, revised procedure directions for Information Commissioner (IC) reviews come into effect today: 1 July 2024. These procedure directions are made under s 55(2)(e)(i) of the FOI Act:

Please note that there have been some clarifications and amendments to these directions since we published advance drafts on 17 May 2024.

The revised procedure directions are accompanied by a revised Part 10 of the FOI Guidelines (Reviews by the Information Commissioner).

We have developed new resources to assist parties to IC reviews with updated procedures at the OAIC:

We will publish further IC review practice documents shortly.

Revisions to the IC review procedure direction follow public consultation in 2023. Thank you to stakeholders who participated in the consultation.