Government Information (Public Access) Act 2009 No 52
Current version for 20 January 2013 to date (accessed 24 May 2013 at 07:17)
108 Delayed decisions
(1) The ADT may on the application of an agency make an order allowing
the agency further time to decide an access application if the decision that
is the subject of ADT review is a decision the agency is deemed to have made
because the access application or internal review concerned was not decided
within time (referred to in this section as a deemed refusal
decision).
(2) Such an order may be made subject to such conditions as the ADT
thinks fit, including either of the following conditions:(a) a condition that if a decision is made to provide access to the
information concerned during the further time allowed, any charge that would
otherwise be payable in connection with providing that access is to be reduced
or waived and the applicant for the ADT review may apply to the ADT for an
order that the applicant’s costs in proceedings on the ADT review are to
be paid by the agency,
(b) a condition permitting the agency to impose processing charges for
work done in connection with the access application (as if the application had
been decided within time).
(3) If an agency makes a reviewable decision (the subsequent
decision) on an access application following a deemed refusal
decision on the application and while the deemed refusal decision is the
subject of ADT review, the ADT may on application by the applicant deal with
the application for ADT review as if it were an application for review of the
subsequent decision.