No. 31 of 2016 (l) Access to Information any other information whose unauthorized disclosure would prejudice national security. (3) Subsection (1)(d) and (e) shall not apply if a request for information relates to the results of any product or environmental testing, and the information concerned reveals a serious public safety or environmental risk. (4) Despite anything contained in subsections (1) and (2), a public entity or private body may be required to disclose information where the public interest in disclosure outweighs the harm to protected interests as shall be determined by a Court. (5) A public entity is not obliged to supply information to a requester if that information is reasonably accessible by other means. (6) In considering the public interest referred in subsection (4), particular regard shall be had to the constitutional principles on the need to— (a) promote accountability of public entities to the public; (b) ensure that the expenditure of public funds is subject to effective oversight; (c) promote informed debate on issues of public interest ; (d) keep the public adequately informed about the existence of any danger to public health or safety or to the environment; and (e) ensure that any statutory authority with regulatory responsibilities is adequately discharging its functions. (7) Unless the contrary is proved by the public entity or private body, information is presumed not to be exempt if the information has been held for a period exceeding thirty years. PART III — ACCESS TO INFORMATION 7. Designation of information access officer (1) A chief executive officer of a public entity shall be an information access officer for purposes of this Act. (2) A chief executive officer of a public entity may delegate the performance of his or her duties as an information access officer under this Act to any officer of the public entity. 8. Application for access (1) An application to access information shall be made in writing in English or Kiswahili and the applicant shall provide details and sufficient particulars for the public officer or any other official to understand what information is being requested. (2) Where an applicant is unable to make a written request for access to information in accordance with subsection (1) because of illiteracy or disability, the information officer shall take the necessary steps to ensure that the applicant makes a request in manner that meets their needs. (3) The information officer shall reduce to writing, in a prescribed form the request made under subsection (2) and the information officer shall then furnish the applicant with a copy of the written request. (4) A public entity may prescribe a form for making an application to access information, but any such form shall not be such as to unreasonably delay requests or place an undue burden upon applicants and no application may be rejected on the ground only that the applicant has not used the prescribed form.