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No.6
Access to Information Act
2016
(3) Notification under subsection (2) shall:
(a) state that the information holder is in
receipt of the request for access to
information;
(b) describe the content of the request;
(c) furnish the particulars of the person
requesting
information to the
satisfaction of the information holder;
and
(d) inform the third party of the obligation
to provide information.
(4) The provisions of this Act relating to the
request for access to information shall apply mutatis
mutandis to the third party who received the notice
under subsection (1).
Deferral of
access
16.-(1) The information holder may defer the
provision of access to information until the happening
of a particular event, including the taking of some
action required by law or some administrative action, or
until the expiration of a specified time, where it is
reasonable to do so in the public interest or having
regard to normal and proper administrative practices.
(2) Where the provision of access to information
is deferred, the information holder shall, in writing,
inform the person requesting information the reasons for
such decisison and the period of which the deferment
shall operate.
Means of
accessing
information
17.-(1) Access to information may be provided to
a person in any of the following forms:
(a) provision of a copy of the information;
(b) delivery of a copy of the information in
electronic form;
(c) in the case of an information that is an
article or another thing from which
sounds or visual images are capable of
being
reproduced,
by
making
arrangements for the person to hear or
view sounds or visual images;