Guidance for Public Authorities

Below are links to guidance documents for Public Authorities

Guidance document title
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01. Neither Confirm Nor Deny
02. Prejudice Test
03. Section 20 Information accessible to applicant by other means
04. Section 21 Court Information
05. Section 22 Parliamentary privilege and business
06. Section 23 Absolutely exempt communications with the Crown
07. Section 24 International agreements
08. Section 25 Absolutely exempt personal information
09. Section 26 Information provided in confidence
10. Section 27 Information the disclosure of which is restricted by law.
11. Section 28 National security and defence
12. Section 29 International relations
13. Section 30 Economy and commercial interests
14. Section 31 Investigations and legal proceedings
15. Section 32 Law enforcement
16. Section 33 Audit functions
17. Section 34 Formulation of policy
18. Section 35 Conduct of public business
19. Section 36 Health and safety
20. Section 37 Research and natural resources
21. Section 38 Qualified exempt communications with the Crown
22. Section 39 Qualified exempt personal information
23. Section 40 Legal professional privilege
24. Section 41 Information for future publication
25. Request Form (Word)
26. Complaint Form (Word)
27. FOI Request Guidance
28. Schedule of time spent responding to FOI request (Excel)
29. Monitoring, tracking and reporting (Excel)
FOI Response Template