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Access to Information Act
2005
public, of the postal and street address, phone and fax number and electronic mail address of
the information officer of every public body.
10. Information officers
For the purposes of this Act, the Chief Executive of each public body shall be responsible for
ensuring that records of the public body are accessible under this Act.
11. Form of request.
(1) A request for access to a record or information shall be in writing in the prescribed
form to the information officer of the public body in control of the record or
information required and shall provide sufficient details to enable an experienced
employee of the body to identify the record or information.
(2) The form for a request of access prescribed under subsection (1) shall require the
person requesting access (a) to provide sufficient particulars to enable the information officer to identify (i) the record or records requested; and
(ii) the person requesting the information;
(b) to indicate which applicable form of access referred to in section 20(2) is required;
(c) to specify the address of the person requesting the information; and
(d) if the request is made on behalf of a person, to state the capacity in which the
person requesting the information is making the request.
(3) A person who, because of illiteracy or disability is unable to make a request
for access in accordance with subsection (1) may make that request orally.
(4) The information officer of a public body to whom an oral request is made under
subsection (3) shall reduce the request to writing in the prescribed form and shall
provide a copy of the written request to the person requesting access.
12. Duty to assist persons
(1) Where a person informs the information officer (a) that he or she wishes to make a request for access to a record of the public body of
that information officer; or
(b) that he or she wishes to make a request for access to a record of another public
body, the information officer shall render such reasonable assistance, free of
charge, as is necessary to enable that person to comply with section 11.
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