316 Freedom of Information No. 27 2003 (b) creating a general right of access to information in documentary form in the possession of public authorities limited only by exceptions and exemptions necessary for the protection of essential public interests and the private and business affairs of persons it respect of whom information is collected and held by public authorities; and (c) creating a right to bring about the amendment of records containing personal information that is incomplete, incorrect or misleading. (2) The provisions of this Act shall be interpreted so as to further the object set out in subsection (1) and any discretion conferred by this Act shall be exercised as far as possible so as to facilitate and promote, promptly and at the lowest reasonable cost, the disclosure of information. Interpretation 4. In this Act "applicant" means a person who has made a request in accordance with section 13 and shall include a person who is acting on behalf of a minor or of a person under a disability; "chief executive officer" includes the officer for the tine being exercising the highest level of administrative functio is within any public authority; "document" means information recorded in any form, whether printed or on tape or film or by electronic means or otherwise and includes any map, diagram, photograph, film, microfilm, videotape, sound recording, or machine-readable record or any record which i s c apable of being produced from a machine-readable record b y means o f equipment o r a programme (or a combination of both) which is used for that purpose by the public authority which holds the record; "enactment" means an Act or an Instrument (including rules, regulations or by-laws) made under an Act;