Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987

17B Duty to consider consulting person if request likely to be refused under section 17(e) or (f)

• If a request is likely to be refused under section 17(e) or (f), the local authority must, before that request is refused, consider whether consulting with the person who made the request would assist that person to make the request in a form that would remove the reason for the refusal.

  Section 17B: inserted, on 22 October 2003, by section 3 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 82).