DAMAGING CLAUSES OF THE LEGISLATION
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The only considerations, or reasons, a NSW agency can refuse to provide the information it holds is listed at the Section 14 Tables, available here.
From time to time this page will refer to the most powerful and frequently used Clauses NSW agencies rely upon to obstruct legitimate access to government information, with the relevant case law showing how they have been applied. Case law are decisions made by the NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal, NCAT.
These decisions are thereafter relied upon by agencies in future cases, like a pyramid.
But it is always exciting to create new case law!
Some agency decisions do not make it to NCAT for a number of reasons. This means the agency decision remains unchallenged. In such cases, there is no new case law, but agencies can be expected to return to those clauses when they are shown to achieve an agency's objective.