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Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

Requests for access to information held by local authorities

12: Transfer of requests

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"When a council sends your information request to someone else who might have the answer"

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If you ask a local authority for information under section 10, they might not have the information you want. They might think another local authority, or a government department, has the information. If that happens, the chief executive of the local authority will send your request to the right place within 10 working days. They will let you know they have sent your request to someone else.

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Part 2Requests for access to information held by local authorities

12Transfer of requests

  1. Where—

  2. a request in accordance with section 10 is made to any local authority; and
    1. the information, or some of the information, to which the request relates—
      1. is not held by that local authority but is believed by the person dealing with the request to be held by another local authority or a department or Minister of the Crown or organisation; or
        1. is believed by the person dealing with the request to be more closely connected with the functions of another local authority or a department or Minister of the Crown or organisation,—
          2. the chief executive of the local authority to which the request is made, or an officer or employee authorised by that chief executive, shall promptly, and in no case later than 10 working days after the day on which the request is received, transfer the request, or relevant part of the request, to the other local authority, or the appropriate department, Minister of the Crown, or organisation, and inform the person making the request accordingly.

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        Notes
        • Section 12: amended, on , by section 7(b) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 23).
        • Section 12: amended, on , by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).
        • Section 12(b): amended, on , by section 7(a) of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Amendment Act 2015 (2015 No 23).