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Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

Requests for access to information held by local authorities

11: Assistance

You could also call this:

"Local authorities must help you ask for information in the right way."

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If you want to ask a local authority for information, they must help you. You can get help to make a request in the right way, as stated in section 10. The local authority will assist you to make your request correctly or send it to the right place.

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Part 2Requests for access to information held by local authorities

11Assistance

  1. It is the duty of every local authority to give reasonable assistance to a person who—

  2. wishes to make a request in accordance with section 10; or
    1. in making a request under section 10, has not made that request in accordance with that section; or
      1. has not made that person's request to the appropriate local authority or department or Minister of the Crown or organisation,—
          1. to make a request in a manner that is in accordance with that section or to direct that person's request to the appropriate local authority or department or Minister of the Crown or organisation.

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