On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:58:50PM +0100, Nick Landau wrote:
> Repeated Requests - If a public authority has previously complied with a
> request for information that was made by a person, it does not need to
> comply with a repeated request from the same person (ie an identical or
> substantially similar request) unless a reasonable amount of time has
> elapsed between compliance with the first request and receipt of the
> second."
I think there's also some guidance somewhere on what a reasonable amount
of time could be. It is entirely possible for someone to make a
perfectly reasonable identical request each month: e.g. "Can
you please supply me the figures for X for the last calendar month"...
Of course, any authority that gets such a request regularly should really
look into some way of automatically publishing the information but that's
a different matter!
Tony
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