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Access to Information Act
2005
(c) adequate reasons for the extension, including the provisions of this Act relied
upon; and
(c) that the person may lodge an internal appeal or an application with a court, as the
case may be, against the extension, and the procedure, including the period, for
lodging the internal appeal or application, as the case may be.
18. Deemed refusal of request.
Where an information officer fails to give the decision on a request for access to the person
concerned within the period contemplated under section 16, the information officer is, for the
purposes of this Act, regarded as having refused the request.
19. Severability
(1) Where a request for access is made for a record containing information which is
required or authorized or to be refused under Part III, then every part or the record, which
does not contain any such information shall be disclosed notwithstanding any other
provision of this Act.
(2) Where a request for access to (a) a part of a record is granted; and
(b) the other part of the record is refused,
in accordance with subsection (1), section 16(2), applies to paragraph (a) of this
subsection and section 16(3) to paragraph (b) of this subsection.
20. Access and forms of access.
(1) Where a person has been notified under section 16(1) that the request for access has
been granted, that person shall, subject to subsections (3) and (10) –
(a) where an access fee is payable, upon payment of that fee; or
(b) where no access fee is payable, immediately,
be given access in the applicable forms referred to in subsection (2) as the person
indicated in the request for access.
(2) The forms of access to a record in respect of which a request of access has been
granted are (a) if the record is in written or printed form, by supplying a copy of the record or by
making arrangements for the inspection of the record;
(b) if the record is not in written or printed form (i) in the case of a record from which visual images or printed transcriptions of
those images are capable of being reproduced by means of equipment which
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