FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1989 - SECT 20 Transfer of applications

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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1989 - SECT 20

20 Transfer of applications

(1) An agency to which an application has been made may transfer the application to another agency:

(a) if the document to which it relates:

(i) is not held by the firstmentioned agency but is, to the knowledge of the firstmentioned agency, held by the other agency, or

(ii) is held by the firstmentioned agency but is more closely related to the functions of the other agency, and

(b) if consent to the application being transferred is given by or on behalf of the other agency.

(2) An agency that transfers an application to another agency shall, if it holds the document to which the application relates, forward a copy of the document to the other agency together with the application.

(3) An agency that transfers an application to another agency shall forthwith cause notice of that fact to be given to the applicant.

(4) Such a notice shall specify the day on which, and the agency to which, the application was transferred.

(5) An agency is not required to include in a notice any matter that is of such a nature that its inclusion in the notice would cause the notice to be an exempt document.

(6) An application that is transferred from one agency to another shall be taken to have been received by the other agency:

(a) on the day on which it is transferred, or

(b) 10 days after the day on which it was received by the agency to which it was originally made,

whichever is the earlier.