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Amendment of section 10 (refusal on administrative grounds to grant requests under section 7) of Principal Act.
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7.—Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended in subsection (1)—
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(a) by deleting “the other” in paragraph (c),
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(b) in paragraph (e), by inserting “, or forms part of a pattern of manifestly unreasonable requests from the same requester or from different requesters who, in the opinion of the head, appear to have made the requests acting in concert” after “vexatious”, and
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(c) in paragraph (f), by inserting “in respect of the request concerned or in respect of a previous request by the same requester” after “section 47”,
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and the said subsection (1) (other than paragraphs (a), (b) and (d)), as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.
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TABLE
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(1) A head to whom a request under section 7 is made may refuse to grant the request if—
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(c) in the opinion of the head, granting the request would, by reason of the number or nature of the records concerned or the nature of the information concerned, require the retrieval and examination of such number of records or an examination of such kind of the records concerned as to cause a substantial and unreasonable interference with or disruption of work of the public body concerned,
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(e) the request is, in the opinion of the head, frivolous or vexatious, or forms part of a pattern of manifestly unreasonable requests from the same requester or from different requesters who, in the opinion of the head, appear to have made the requests acting in concert, or
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(f) a fee or deposit payable under section 47 in respect of the request concerned or in respect of a previous request by the same requester has not been paid.
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