GIPA is unusual and worth understanding properly, because it does not treat access as beginning with a request. It imposes a positive duty to make certain information publicly available, and encourages proactive and informal release before a formal application is ever needed.

For this register that changes the character of a gap. Where a NSW body holds information falling within the open access requirements and has not published it, the entry is not merely recording that nobody has asked -- it is recording a failure to do something the Act requires. Those are the strongest entries in the register and are worth marking clearly.

Note the response period is counted in working days, which is a materially different thing from the Commonwealth's calendar days. Comparing the two regimes without adjusting for that is a common and misleading error.