No. 27 325 Freedom of Information 2003 other form such, as on tape, disk, film, electronic means or other material; (c) the manner in which any fees payable under this Act is to be calculated and the maximum amount it shall not exceed; and (d) exempt any person or category of persons from paying any fees under this Act, where the information contained in the document for which access is requested is in the public interest. Forms of access 20. (1) Access to a document may be given to a person in one or more of the following forms: (a) a reasonable opportunity to inspect the document; (b) provision by the public authority o f a copy of the document; (c) in the case of a document that is an article or thing from which sounds or visual images are capable of being reproduced, the making of arrangements for the person to hear or view those sounds or visual images; (d) in the case of a document by which words are recorded in a manner in which they are capable of being reproduced in the form of sound or in which words are contained in the form of shorthand writing or in codified form, provision by the public authority o f a written transcript of the words recorded or contained in the document. (2) Subject t o subsection ( 3) and to section 18, where the applicant has requested access in a particular form, access shall be given in that form. (3) If the form of access requested by the applicant (a) would interfere unreasonably with the operations of the public authority; or

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