c) the record contains a notes, preliminary, working or any other draft of an official of a
public body.
3/A record may not be refused in terms of sub-article (1) and (2) in so far as it consists of an
account of, or a statement of reasons required to be given in court proceedings.
27. Requests that are too broad, likely to divert resources or pertaining to informations to
bepublished in the future
Notwithstanding the provisions of Article 12 of this Proclamation, the public relations officer
may reject the request to obtain information where:
1) the request is too general or is of such a nature that the information required to be
retrieved or processed would involve disproportionate diversion of human and material
resources or would adversely interferes with the functioning of such authority;
2) the request is insufficiently precise to enable the information sought to be identified, and
the requester has failed to reframe his request even though the public relations officer has
provided him with assistance to this end
3) the request relates to Information that is required by law, regulation, directives or order to
be published at a particular time and such information is likely to be published within 30
days of the receipt of such request; or
4) the request relates to information contained in published material generally available for
the public .
28. public interst override
Notwithstanding the exceptions in article 15-25 of this proclamation a public body may not
refuse a request for information unless the harm to the protected interest which would be
caused by disclosure outweighs the public interest in disclosure .
29. Severability
When a request for access is made to a record of a public body containing information
which may or shall be refused in terms of any provision of this proclamation, disclosure of
that part of the record which does not contain exempted information may be allowed if it can
reasonably be severed from any part that contains such information.
30. Language of access
A requester whose request for access to a record of a public body has been granted may,