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Urgent requests
11. Where the information requested in a request made under section 6 is strictly
a matter of urgency concerning the life or liberty of a person, the particulars of the
information specified in the request must, subject to this Act, be provided as soon as
reasonably practicable from the receipt of the request and in the manner determined by
the Commission.
Division 2—Facilitation of request
Public agency to provide assistance and information
12.—(1) A public agency to which a request has been forwarded by the Commission
under section 8 or 10 must—
(a) render effective and timely assistance;
(b) provide, where reasonably practicable, all the particulars of the information
specified in the request; and
(c) provide access to the information, as soon as reasonably practicable and
within 20 days from the receipt of the request from the Commission,
to the person who made the request under section 6.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a public agency may impose a charge for the
expenses involved in making the requested information available.
(3) Pursuant to subsection (2), the public agency must notify the person who made the
request of the charge required to be paid and the person must pay such charge in order
to access the information.
(4) Any charge under subsection (2) must be reasonable and based on—
(a) in the case of information contained in documents, the nature and estimated
quantity of documents;
(b) the estimated expenses involved in making the information available;
(c) the estimated time for preparing the information; and
(d) in the case of an urgent request under section 11, any expenses incurred
pursuant to that urgent request.
Forms of access
13.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), any information which a public agency is directed
under section 8 or 10 to make available to the person who has made the request may be
made available in any of the following ways—
(a) by giving the person a reasonable opportunity to inspect the information;
(b) by giving the person a copy of the information;
(c) in the case of information that is an article or material from which sounds
or images are capable of being reproduced, by giving the person a copy of
the article or material or by making arrangements for the person to hear
those sounds or view those images; or