Act 6 Access to Information Act 2005 is ordinarily available to the public body concerned, by making arrangements to view those images or be supplied with copies or transcriptions of them; (ii) in the case of a record in which words or information are recorded in a manner that they are capable of being reproduced in the form of sound by equipment which is ordinarily available to the public body concerned – (aa) by making arrangements to hear those sounds; or (ab) if the public body is capable of producing a written or printed transcription of those sounds by the use of equipment which is ordinarily available to it, by supplying that transcription; (iii)in the case of a record which is held on computer, or in electronic or machinereadable form, and from which the public body concerned is capable of producing a printed copy of (aa) the record, or a part of it; or (ab) information derived from the record, by using computer equipment and expertise ordinarily available to the public body, by supplying such a copy; (iv) in the case of a record available or capable of being made available in computer readable form, by supplying a copy in that form; or (v) in any other case, by supplying a copy of the record. (3) Where a person has requested access in a particular form, access shall, subject to section 18, be given in that form, unless to do so would (a) interfere unreasonably with the effective administration of the public body concerned; (b) be detrimental to the preservation of the record; or (c) amount to an infringement of copyright not owned by the State or the public body concerned. (4) Where a person has requested access in a particular form and for a reason referred to in subsection (3), access in that form is refused but access is given in another form, the fee charged may not exceed what would have been charged if the person had been given access in the form requested. (5) Where a person with a disability is prevented by that disability from reading, viewing or listening to the record concerned in the form in which it is held by the public body concerned, the information officer shall, if that person so requests, take reasonable steps 14

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