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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1992 - SECT 112

112 .         Regulations

        (1)         The Governor may make regulations prescribing all matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed, or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for achieving the objects and giving effect to the purposes of this Act.

        (2)         Without limiting subsection (1) and subject to section 16, regulations may be made prescribing —

            (a)         fees for lodging access applications; and

            (b)         charges for dealing with access applications or rates to be used in calculating such charges.

        (3)         In the making of regulations under subsection (2) (as read with section 45 of the Interpretation Act 1984 ) regard has to be had to the need to ensure that fees and charges are reasonable and as low as is practicable, and special regard has to be had to —

            (a)         the need to ensure that financially disadvantaged persons are not precluded from exercising their rights under this Act merely because of financial hardship; and

            (b)         the particular relationship between a person and documents containing personal information about that person.

        (4)         Without limiting subsection (1), regulations may be made —

            (a)         as to the way in which access applications and applications for amendment relating to electronically stored information may be dealt with and as to the way in which access to such information may be provided and the way in which such information may be amended;

            (b)         as to the nomination of persons for the purposes of section 28 and as to the qualifications of such persons for nomination.



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