Legislation | Prime Minister´s Office 6 of 10 http://eng.forsaetisraduneyti.is/acts-of-law//nr/15 obliged to present the Committee with copies of the material to which an appeal relates. Should the members of the Committee not agree, the majority shall determine the outcome. In the event of a tie, the chair has the casting vote. In other respects, procedures observed by the Information Committee shall comply with Chapter VII of the Administrative Procedures Act. Article 17 Notification and enforceability of rulings The Information Committee shall present its decision as quickly as possible to the government authority involved and to the party that requested access to the material. If the Committee has approved the request for accessing the material, the government authority shall grant access to it as soon as the ruling has been announced, unless a deferring of its legal effect has been demanded, pursuant to Art. 18. Rulings under this Act which regard access to material or copies of material are enforceable, unless their legal effect has been deferred. Article 18 Deferment of the legal effect of a ruling Upon the demand of a government authority, the Information Committee may decide to defer the legal effect of its ruling, if it feels there is special reason for doing so. A demand to this effect shall be presented no later than three days after the ruling was announced. Deferment of the legal effect of a ruling shall be subject to the condition that the authority refer the matter to the courts within seven days of when the decision to defer the legal effect of the ruling was announced and request that it receive priority treatment. Should the request for priority treatment be denied, proceedings must be initiated within seven days of the time that such denial occurred. Article 19 Publication of rulings The Information Committee shall publish its rulings, or summaries thereof, each year. Access to material in the National Archives of Iceland and other public archives Article 20 Access to material after it has been submitted to archives When material covered by this Act has been submitted to the National Archives of Iceland or another public archive, the archive concerned shall decide whether the material that was requested should be shown, or, where the following is an option, whether to provide photocopies of the documents and copies of the other types of material. If the right of access to material is in doubt, the archive may, before taking a decision, obtain the substantiated opinion of the government authority that presented the material to the archive. 23/06/2010 12:39 PM