Information on applying for Access to Council Information
Applying for access
Fees and charges
Personal information
Evidence of identity
Timelines
Exemptions
Amendments to personal information
Applying for access
Requests for access to documents under Right to Information (RTI)
and Information Privacy (IP) legislation exclude documents that are
already available via other means.
For example, minutes of Bundaberg Regional Council meetings are readily available public documents, which can be accessed by the
community. So before making a formal Right to Information
application, check Council's website or contact Council about the
location of information.
For documents that are not available, via other avenues of access,
applications need to be made in writing, via a letter to Council's
RTI/IP Decision-Maker or by downloading and completing an application
form provided by the Queensland Goverment Smart Service website.
Letters or the completed applicaton form must be addressed and forwarded to :
RTI Decision Maker
Bundaberg Regional Council
PO Box 3130
BUNDABERG QLD 4670
All applications must clearly identify the specific documents
requested or provide sufficient information about the documents, to
enable the Decision-Maker to identify the documents being sought.
Fees and charges
Access to documents that are not related to an individual’s personal
information will incur an application fee of $38 and possibly
processing charges of $5.80, for each 15 minutes or part there of,
spent dealing with the application.
The processing charges will only be applied if the total time taken
to process the application is more than five hours. A further charge of
$0.20 will be incurred for each black and white copy of an A4 document.
No charges are incurred for access to documents or parts of
documents that relate to an individual’s personal information. Examples
of personal information are described below.
However, documents which contain both personal information and
non-personal information will incur an application fee and processing
charges as detailed above.
Personal information
Personal information is information or an opinion about an
individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained
from the information or opinion.
Examples of personal information include:
- a person's name, address, phone number or email address;
- a photograph of a person;
- the fact that a person is a member, or leader, of an association and their attendance at meetings;
- a persons' medical details or health information;
- details about a person's religious or sexual preferences; and
- details about a person's membership of a trade union or professional body.
