Disclosure of Interest Returns:
- Section 6 of the GIPA Act provides for the mandatory proactive release by NSW public sector agencies (including councils) of open access information. The GIPA Act provides that open access information must be made publicly available free of charge on a website maintained by the agency.
- Councillors’ and designated persons’ returns of interests are prescribed as open access information for local government under Schedule 1 to the Government Information (Public Access) Regulation 2018.
