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The Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 23 Cited in Amendments 7 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2004/3244
  • These Regulations may be cited as the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fees) Regulations 2004 and come into force on 1st January 2005.
  • In these Regulations—
    • (1) This regulation has effect to prescribe (2) In the case of a public authority which is listed in Part I of Schedule 1 to the 2000 Act, the appropriate limit is £600.(3) In the case of any other public authority, the appropriate limit is £450.(1) This regulation has effect in any case in which a public authority proposes to estimate whether the cost of complying with a relevant request would exceed the appropriate limit.for unstructured personal data within the meaning of section 9A(1) of the 1998 Act information to which section 1(1) of the 2000 Act would, apart from the appropriate limit, to any extent apply.determining whether it holds the information,locating the information, or a document which may contain the information,retrieving the information, or a document which may contain the information, andextracting the information from a document containing it.(4) To the extent to which any of the costs which a public authority takes into account are attributable to the time which persons undertaking any of the activities mentioned in paragraph (3) on behalf of the authority are expected to spend on those activities, those costs are to be estimated at a rate of £25 per person per hour.by one person, orby different persons who appear to the public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign,the two or more requests referred to in paragraph (1) relate, to any extent, to the same or similar information, andthose requests are received by the public authority within any period of sixty consecutive working days.

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