Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 2003

Amendment of section 2 (interpretation) of Principal Act.

2.—Section 2 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1)—

(a) in the definition of “record”, by adding, after “two or more of the foregoing”, “and a copy, in any form, of a record shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have been created at the same time as the record;”,

(b) by substituting the following for the definition of “local authority”:

“ ‘local authority’ means a local authority for the purposes of the Local Government Act 2001 ;”,

and

(c) by adding the following definitions:

“ ‘factual information’ includes information of a statistical, econometric or empirical nature, together with any analysis thereof;

‘week’ means a period of 5 consecutive week-days and, in determining such a period, a Saturday or a public holiday (within the meaning of the Organisation of Working Time Act 1997 ) shall be disregarded and ‘weeks’ shall be construed accordingly.”.