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Access to Information Act
2016
(3) Notification under subsection (2) shall:
(a) state that the information holder is in receipt
of the request for access to information;
(b) describe the content of the request;
(c) furnish the particulars of the person requesting
information to the satisfaction of the
information holder; and
(d) inform the third party of the obligation to
provide information.
(4) The provisions of this Act relating to the
request for access to information shall apply mutatis
mutandis to the third party who received the notice under
subsection (1).
Deferral of
access
16.-(1) The information holder may defer the
provision of access to information until the happening of a
particular event, including the taking of some action
required by law or some administrative action, or until the
expiration of a specified time, where it is reasonable to do
so in the public interest or having
regard to normal and proper administrative practices.
(2) Where the provision of access to information
is deferred, the information holder shall, in writing,
inform the person requesting information the reasons for
such decisison and the period of which the deferment
shall operate.
Means of
accessing
information
17.-(1) Access to information may be provided to
a person in any of the following forms:
(a) provision of a copy of the information;
(b) delivery of a copy of the information in
electronic form;
(c) in the case of an information that is an article
or another thing from which sounds or visual
images are capable of being reproduced, by
making arrangements for the person to hear or
view sounds or visual images;
(d) in the case of an information by which words
are recorded in a manner in which they are
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