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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 49J

Effect of delay by Information Commissioner in relation to requests

S. 49J(1) amended by No. 20/2017 s. 31(2).

    (1)     This section applies if the Information Commissioner

S. 49J(1)(a) amended by No. 20/2017 s. 31(3).

        (a)     has not, within the required period, completed the review of a decision of an agency or Minister referred to in section 49A(1)(a) or (b) or (2); and

        (b)     has not, within the required period, made a determination under section 49G with respect to the application for review or the review.

S. 49J(2) amended by No. 20/2017 s. 31(2).

    (2)     At the end of the required period, the Information Commissioner is taken, for the purposes of an application to the Tribunal for review, to have made a decision—

        (a)     refusing to grant access to the document in accordance with the request; or

        (b)     deferring the provision of access to a document; or

        (c)     not to amend the document pursuant to a request under section 39

as the case requires.

S. 49J(3) amended by No. 20/2017 s. 31(2), substituted by No. 20/2017 s. 31(4).

    (3)     In this section the "required period" is—

        (a)     30 days after the application for review by the Information Commissioner is received; or

        (b)     if that period is extended or further extended, that period as extended.

S. 49J(4) inserted by No. 20/2017 s. 31(4).

    (4)     The Information Commissioner may extend the period referred to in subsection (3)(a) by agreement in writing with the applicant, any number of times.

S. 49J(5) inserted by No. 20/2017 s. 31(4).

    (5)     The period referred to in subsection (3)(a) cannot be extended or further extended under this section if that period has expired.

S. 49K inserted by No. 6/2012 s. 13, amended by No. 20/2017 s. 32.



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