PROMOTION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT 2 OF 2000 Page 23 of 70 must, as soon as reasonably possible, but in any event within 30 days, after the request is received or transferred, notify the requester of that extension. (3) The notice in terms of subsection (2) must state(a) the period of the extension; (b) adequate reasons for the extension, including the provisions of this Act relied upon; and (c) that the requester may lodge an internal appeal or an application with a court, as the case may be, against the extension, and the procedure (including the period) for lodging the internal appeal or application, as the case may be. [NB: Para. (c) has been substituted by s. 110 of the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013, a provision which will be put into operation by proclamation. See PENDLEX.] 27 Deemed refusal of request If an information officer fails to give the decision on a request for access to the requester concerned within the period contemplated in section 25 (1), the information officer is, for the purposes of this Act, regarded as having refused the request. 28 Severability (1) If a request for access is made to a record of a public body containing information which may or must be refused in terms of any provision of Chapter 4 of this Part, every part of the record which(a) does not contain; and (b) can reasonably be severed from any part that contains, any such information must, despite any other provision of this Act, be disclosed. (2) If a request for access to(a) a part of a record is granted; and (b) the other part of the record is refused, as contemplated in subsection (1), the provisions of section 25 (2), apply to paragraph (a) of this subsection and the provisions of section 25 (3) apply to paragraph (b) of this subsection. [Sub-s. (2) substituted by s. 29 of Act 42 of 2001 (wef 7 December 2001).] 29 Access and forms of access (1) If a requester has been given notice in terms of section 25 (1) that his or her request for access has been granted, that requester must, subject to subsections (3) and (9) and section 31(a) if an access fee is payable, upon payment of that fee; or (b) if no access fee is payable, immediately, be given access in the applicable forms referred to in subsection (2) as the requester indicated in the request, and in the language contemplated in section 31. (2) The forms of access to a record in respect of which a request of access has been granted, are the following: (a) If the record is in written or printed form, by supplying a copy of the record or by making arrangements for the inspection of the record; (b) if the record is not in written or printed form(i) in the case of a record from which visual images or printed transcriptions of those images are capable of being reproduced by means of equipment which is ordinarily available to the public body concerned, by making arrangements to view those images or be supplied with copies or transcriptions of them; http://juta/nxt/print.asp?NXTScript=nxt/gateway.dll&NXTHost=juta&functio... 2016/12/02