Gary Kent is pursuing documents regarding the ACT division's financial status and its controversial preselection in February.

Mr Kent says he has repeatedly been denied access to the paperwork by the party's powerful management committee.

Division president Tio Faulkner said on Thursday night Mr Kent's claims were false and ''deliberately damaging the interests of the party''.

In an email to committee members on Wednesday, Mr Kent said he wanted documents relating to the conduct of the party's federal preselection and had applied to ACAT "for an order compelling the division to comply with my request".

It is understood Mr Kent is also seeking information on the party's finances after it was reported in March the division was carrying debts of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Mr Kent was the key figure in an attempt to topple the Canberra Liberals federal preselection, in which former opposition leader Zed Seselja beat Senator Gary Humphries for the division's No.1 Senate nomination. Disaffected party members claimed they had been unfairly denied the right to vote, but a motion to overturn the result failed in March.

Mr Kent lodged a complaint early this year with the Office of Regulatory Services, claiming the party was breaching the Associations Incorporation Act by not making its books available to members.

"The ORS has tried to encourage the association to comply with its rules, but based on the content of your previous emails, it would appear that the association will not be persuaded to change its current stance," the ORS wrote to Mr Kent in April.

In his email to the management committee on Wednesday, Mr Kent said he had sought access "to certain documents for many months, but so far I have been granted access to none.

"A number of the documents to which I seek access relate in large part to the conduct of the unsatisfactory 2013 ACT Liberal pre-selection which were, on the basis of the ORS advice … improperly withheld from concerned party members during the preselection process itself and at the special meeting called to consider the pre-selection," Mr Kent said.

But Mr Faulkner said Mr Kent had ''been given ample opportunity for reasonable access''.

''He failed to attend the first meeting which was arranged especially for him,'' Mr Faulkner said.

''Another meeting was arranged which he attended but walked out of after a few minutes. Subsequently he was sent an open invitation in writing to attend the division to discuss his request.

''He has failed to take up that invitation.''

Mr Kent said he walked out of the meeting because the first item on his list of documents was refused.