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APPLICATION AND OTHER FORMS REGULATIONS
Table of Provisions (9)
Statutory Text (9 Articles)
APPLICATION AND OTHER FORMS
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 496.03
APPLICATION AND OTHER FORMS
REGULATIONS
21st April, 2010 *
LEGAL NOTICE 160 of 2010.
The title of these regulations is the Application and other
Forms Regulations.
(Regulation 3)
(Application Form)
APPLICATION AND OTHER FORMS
In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires
"application form" means the form in the First Schedule;
"reply forms" means the forms in the Second Schedule;
"single request" means a request for one document or a request
for specific or closely related information; and
"the Act" means the Freedom of Information Act, and words and
expressions which are also used in the Act shall have the same
meaning assigned to them in the Act.
(Regulation 6)
(Reply Forms)
APPLICATION AND OTHER FORMS
APPLICATION AND OTHER FORMS
Applicants shall provide public authorities with the
information indicated in the application form in the First Schedule
in relation to all requests made in terms of the Act.
Applicants shall fill in a separate application form for
every single request.
Public authorities shall make application forms readily
available to the public at their premises and online on their website,
and shall assist applicants in filling in the application forms and in
providing the required information as necessary.
Public authorities shall make notifications and
communicate decisions to applicants utilizing, wherever
practicable, the pertinent reply form in the Second Schedule
Provided that, whenever use cannot be made of a reply
form from the Second Schedule, public authorities shall
nevertheless provide a reply in writing, and shall remind applicants
of their rights emanating from the Act, in particular the right to
address a complaint in line with the public authority’s internal
complaints procedure and the right to address a complaint or seek
investigation and review by the Information and Data Protection
Commissioner
Provided further, that public authorities shall inform
applicants, where applicable, of the rates or the fee applicable to
their request as the case may be.
*see regulation 1(2) of these Regulations, as originally promulgated.
APPLICATION AND OTHER FORMS