(d) the existence of the record within the public body in another
format that is useful to the requester;
(e) the possibility that the record can be converted to another format
that is useful to the requester;
(f) the impact of the conversion on the operations of the public body;
(g) the availability of the required personnel, and resources, and
(h) the availability of the necessary technology and equipment.
7.
Access fee
(1) The requester shall pay a non refundable access fee set out in Schedule
3 when requesting for a record from a public body.
(2) Upon receipt of the access fee, the information officer shall issue to the
requester a signed and stamped acknowledgement slip in Form 2 set out in
schedule 2.
(3) Where the information requested for is in the public interest or where
the disclosure of the information is likely to benefit a large section of the public,
the prescribed access fee shall be waived.
8.
Acknowledgement of receipt
(1) The information officer, to whom a request is made, shall acknowledge
receipt of the request by signing a copy of the request.
(2) The information officer shall deal with the request for access to a record
without undue delay.
9.
Limitation on production of record
(1) Where a record does not exist but can be produced from a machine
readable record under the control of a government institution, the record need not
be produced if the production of the document would unreasonably interfere with
the operations of the public body.
(2) Where a person is granted access to a record, the head of the public
body which has control of the record shall, where necessary, inform the person—
(a) that the record may be examined by that person in order to save the cost
of reproduction of the record;
(b) that the person may specify that he or she requires only certain
parts of the record to be reproduced;
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