Any official information held by public bodies can be sought under the Act.

However, in order to allow FOI bodies to properly conduct their business, it will sometimes be necessary to exempt from release, certain types of information in some circumstances. These are set out in the Act.

Among the key exemptions are records relating to:

• Government meetings
• law enforcement and security
• confidential and commercially sensitive information
• personal information (other than information relating to the person making the request)