created since the date of commencement of
this Act and are in the possession of the
public authority;
(b)
within 12 months after publication of the
statement required under paragraph (a) and
thereafter at intervals of 12 months, cause to
be published in the Gazette, statements
bringing up to date the information contained
in the previous statement or statements.
(3) The public authority may not comply fully with
paragraph (2)(a) before the expiration of 12 months from the date of
commencement of this Act, but it shall, before that time, comply
with that paragraph as far as is practicable.
(4) This section does not require a document of the kind
referred to in subsection (1) containing exempt information to be
referred to in a statement published in accordance with subsection
(2)(a), if the fact of the existence of the document cannot be referred
to in the statement without exempt information being disclosed.
(5) Where a public authority comes into existence on or after
the date of commencement of this Act, subsections (2) and (3) shall
apply in relation to that public authority as if the references in those
subsections to the date of commencement of this Act were
references to the date the public authority so comes into existence.
Notice requiring
specification of
document in
statement
24.
(1) A person may serve upon a public authority a notice, in
writing, stating that, in the opinion of the person, a statement
published by the public authority under section 22(2) or section
23(2) does not specify a document as described in section 22(1) or
23(1) that was required to be specified in the statement.
(2) The public authority shall (a)
make a decision within 21 days of receiving a
notice and publish the decision in relation to
the document referred to in subsection (1), no
later than seven days thereafter in the Gazette;
and
(b)
cause the person to be given notice in writing
of its decision.
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