(2) If the institution does not have the requested information, the institution shall provide
a statement regarding the location of the information and if such is known to the
institution, it shall indicate by which procedures the information is accessible.
(3) If the information has been published in the newspaper Latvijas Vēstnesis [the official
Gazette of the Government of Latvia], the institution having evaluated whether this
newspaper is accessible to the applicant, may refuse to provide the requested information
indicating when and where the information was published in the newspaper Latvijas
Vēstnesis.
(4) In the case referred to in Section 11.2, Paragraph four of this Law, the institution shall
draw up a refusal to provide information if after the receipt of a notification regarding the
possible manner in which the information shall be provided, the applicant for the
information informs the institution in writing that he or she does not agree with offered
manner in which the information shall be provided.
[22 December 2005; 5 October 2006]
Section 13. Payment for the Provision of Information
(1) Generally accessible information which does not require any additional processing
shall be provided free of charge.
(2) Payment for the provision of information may not exceed the expenses of the
searching for, additional processing and copying of documents or information. The
payment may not include any other expenses, which have been incurred in respect of
resolving legal or political issues, which are associated with the provision of answers to
the request for information.
(3) Every applicant for information may request exemption from the payment for the
service. The Cabinet shall determine the cases where payment for the provision of
information by a private person shall be reduced or shall be released from such payment.
(4) The Cabinet shall determine the procedures by which payment is performed for the
provision of information, as well as the paid services and the amounts thereof.
(5) Commercial companies founded by public persons for the re-use of information in
their commercial activities shall have applied the same payment and provision procedures
as for other applicants for information.
[22 December 2005]
Section 14. Time Periods for the Provision of Information
(1) An institution, which has received a written request for information, shall perform one
of the following operations:
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