Freedom of Information Act 2016
26Open access information—deletion of contrary to the
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26 Open access information—deletion of contrary to the public interest information (a) a record containing open access information of an agency or Minister also contains contrary to the public interest
(b) it is practicable to make publicly available a copy of the record from which the contrary to the public interest information has been deleted. (2) The agency or Minister must— (a) make a copy of the record publicly available; and (b) publish a statement that the original record contained contrary to the public interest information that has been deleted from the copy. (3) However, subsection (2) does not apply to the agency if— (a) the record is a policy document of the agency; and (b) the information, other than the contrary to the public interest information, contained in the record has been otherwise made publicly available. policy document—see section 23 (2).