ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 12 The Freedom of Information Act, 2004. No. 19 of 2004. be given in accordance with the language preference of the person making the request. If a record is not held. 22. (1) Where an gficial who receivesa request for information believes, on reasonable grounds, that the request relates to information that is not contained in any record held by the public authority, the official may transfer the request to the information officer for purposes of compliance with this section. (2) Where an information officer receives a request pursuant to subsection (I), he shall confirm whether or not the public authority holds a record containing the information and, if it does not, he shall, if he knows of another public authority which holds the relevant record, as soon as practicable (a) transfer the request to that public authority and inform the applicant of such transfer; or (b) indicate to the applicant whlch public authority holds the relevant record; whichever would be llkely to ensure more expeditious access to the information. (3) Where a request is transferred pursuant to subsection (2) ((a),the time limit for responding to requests under section 18 shall begin to run from the date of the transfer. Vexatious, repetitive Or unreasonable requests. 23. (1) A public authority is not required to comply with a request for information which is vexatious or unreasonable or where it has recently complied with a substantially similar request from the same person. (2) A flublicauthority is not required to comply with a request for information where to do so would unreasonably affect its financial or other resources. PART lV EXCEPTIONS TO CXNEXAL RIGHT OF ACCESS Public interest to ovemde all other considerations. 24. Notwithstanding any provision in this Part, a public authority may not refuse to indicate whether or not it holds a record, or refuse to communicate information, unless the harm that would result from the refusal outweighs the public interest in the disclosure of that information.