(I)
If a request for access is made to a record of a public body containing information
which may or must be refused in terms of any provision of Chapter 4 of this Part, every part of the
record which(a)
does not contain; and
(b)
can reasonably be severed from any part that contains, any such information must, despite
any other provision of this Act, be disclosed.
(2)
If a request for access to(a)
a part of a record is granted; and
(b)
the other part of the record is refused, as contemplated in subsection (1), the
provisions of section 25 (2), apply to paragraph (a) of this section and the provisions of
section 25 (3) to paragraph (b ) of this section.
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Access and forms of access
(1)
If a requester has been given notice in terms of section 25 (1) that his or her request for access has
been granted, that requester must, subject to subsections (3) and (9) and section 31(a)
(b)
(2)
if an access fee is payable, upon payment of that fee; or
if no access fee is payable, immediately, be given access in the applicable forms referred
to in subsection (2) as the requester indicated in the request, and in the language
contemplated in section 31.
The forms of access to a record in respect of which a request of access has been granted, are the
following:
(a)
(b)
If the record is in written on printed form, by supplying a copy of the record or by making
arrangements for the inspection of the record;
if the record is not in written or printed form(i)
in the case of a record from which visual images or printed transcriptions of
those images are capable of being reproduced by means of equipment which is
ordinarily available to the public body concerned, by making arrangements to
view those images or be supplied with copies or transcriptions of them;
(ii)
in the case of a record in which words or information are recorded in such
manner that they are capable of being reproduced in the form of sound by
equipment which is ordinarily available to the public body concerned(aa)
(bb)
(iii)
by making arrangements to hear those sounds; or
if the public body is capable of producing a written or printed
transcription of those sounds by the use of equipment which is
ordinarily available to it, by supplying such a transcription;
in the case of a record which is held on computer, or in electronic or machinereadable form, and from which the public body concerned is capable of
producing a printed copy of(a)
the record, or a part of it; or
(b)
information derived from the record, by using computer equipment and
expertise ordinarily available to the public body, by supplying such a
copy;