4.3.7.4. “Manifestly frivolous or vexatious requests, or substantial and unreasonable diversion of resources” An information officer may refuse a request for information if he/she is of the opinion that processing requests will be unreasonably time consuming and lead to waste of resources. In addition, an Information Officer may refuse access to a record if the request is seen to be meaningless or made by a requester to unnecessarily annoy or provoke. 4.4. Public Interest Override All the protections afforded to information as detailed above falls away if the release of the information is in the public interest. In this way the public interest test overrides all the other grounds of refusal of access to information. The following test must be applied by an Information Officer of a public or private body before refusing to allow access to information that falls under the categories for nondisclosure listed above. If these conditions are met, then the information must be disclosed on the grounds of public interest. Do the records in question contain Does the information information relating to demonstrate a serious an imminent and breach of a law? serious public safety OR or environmental risk? South African Human Rights Commission Does the public interest in dislosing the information clearly outweigh the potential AND harm? 55