Treasury Solicitors

The complainant requested the public authority to provide him with information generated by the sale of bona vacantia property (ownerless property which by law passes to the Crown) to a third party. The public authority relied on sections 21, 40(2) 43 and 41(1) to withhold the information. The Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority was entitled to withhold the information by reference to sections 40(2), 41(1) and 43(2).