[CAP. 496. FREEDOM OF INFORMATION 15 client. (7) The Commissioner may cancel an information notice by written notice to the public authority on which it was served. (8) In this information. article "information" includes unrecorded 25. (1) If the Commissioner is satisfied that a public authority has failed to comply with any of its obligations under this Act, the Commissioner may serve the authority with a notice (in this Act referred to as "an enforcement notice") requiring the authority to take, within such a time as may be specified in the notice, such steps as may be so specified for complying with those obligations. (2) Enforcement notices. An enforcement notice shall contain (a) a statement of the requirement or requirements of this Act with which the public authority has, in the Commissioner’s satisfied opinion, failed to comply, and his reasons for reaching that conclusion; and (b) particulars of the right of appeal conferred by article 39. (3) An enforcement notice shall not require any of the provisions of the notice to be complied with before the end of the period within which an appeal can be brought against the notice and, if such an appeal is brought, the notice need not be complied with pending the determination or withdrawal of the appeal. (4) The Commissioner may cancel an enforcement notice by written notice to the public authority on which it was served. (5) This article shall have effect subject to article 26. 26. (1) A decision or enforcement notice issued by the Commissioner in respect of the disclosure of a document shall not have effect if the Prime Minister certifies to the Commissioner that, in his opinion, the document is an exempt document in terms of any of the provisions of Part V. Exception from duty to comply with decision notice or enforcement notice. (2) A certificate under this article shall contain a statement by the Prime Minister of the reasons for his opinion, except in so far as this would involve the disclosure of matter that is exempt matter in terms of the provisions of Part V. (3) Where the Prime Minister issues a certificate under this article, he shall as soon as practicable thereafter lay a copy of it before the House of Representatives. (4) Where the Commissioner receives a certificate under this article in respect of a decision notice, he shall inform the applicant accordingly. 27. (1) Where a public authority or an officer of such an authority refuses or, without a good reason, fails to comply with (a) so much of a decision notice as requires steps to be taken; Failure to comply with notice.

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