TIMEFRAMES FOR LODGING COMPLAINTS AND REQUESTS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REVIEW REGULATIONS

TIMEFRAMES FOR LODGING COMPLAINTS AND

REQUESTS FOR INVESTIGATION AND REVIEW

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 496.02

TIMEFRAMES FOR LODGING COMPLAINTS

AND REQUESTS FOR INVESTIGATION AND

REVIEW REGULATIONS

21st April, 2010 *

LEGAL NOTICE 159 of 2010.

The title of these regulations is the Timeframes for lodging

Complaints and Requests for Investigation and Review

Regulations.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires,

"the Act" means the Freedom of Information Act, and words and

expressions which are also used in the Act shall in these regulations

have the same meaning assigned to them in the Act.

An applicant who considers that a public authority did not

meet the requirements set out in the Act in respect of his request in

terms of the Act may address a complaint to that public authority

within a maximum of thirty days from the date of the last relative

communication from the public authority or the act or omission

giving rise to the complaint, whichever is the later date.

Complaints or requests for investigation and review

addressed to the Commissioner in terms of the Act shall be lodged

by the applicant within a maximum of sixty days from the receipt

of the final communication from the public authority concerned.

*see regulation 1(2) of these Regulations, as originally promulgated.