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Freedom of Information Act 2014.
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deemed, for the purposes of this Act, not to have been made.
(c) Fees of different amounts may be prescribed under paragraph (a) in respect of
different classes of applicant.
(14) An FOI body shall endeavour to establish a facility by which payment or refund of
any fees due under this Act may be made electronically.
PART 4
EXEMPT RECORDS
Meetings of the Government
28. (1) A head may refuse to grant an FOI request if the record concerned—
(a) has been, or is proposed to be, submitted to the Government for its consideration
by a Minister of the Government or the Attorney General and was created for that
purpose,
(b) is a record of the Government other than a record by which a decision of the
Government is published to the general public by or on behalf of the
Government, or
(c) contains information (including advice) for a member of the Government, the
Attorney General, a Minister of State, the Secretary General to the Government
for use by him or her solely for the purpose of the transaction of any business of
the Government at a meeting of the Government.
(2) A head shall refuse to grant an FOI request if the record concerned—
(a) contains the whole or part of a statement made at a meeting of the Government or
information that reveals, or from which may be inferred, the substance of the
whole or part of such a statement, and
(b) is not a record—
(i) referred to in paragraph (a) or (c) of subsection (1), or
(ii) by which a decision of the Government is published to the general public by
or on behalf of the Government.
(3) Subject to this Act, subsection (1) does not apply to a record referred to in that
subsection—
(a) if and in so far as it contains factual information relating to a decision of the
Government that has been published to the general public, or
(b) if the record relates to a decision of the Government that was made more than 5
years before the receipt by the head concerned of the FOI request concerned.
(4) A decision to grant an FOI request in respect of a record to which paragraph (a) or (b)
of subsection (1) applies shall not be made unless, in so far as it is practicable to do
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