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Information Act 2002
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27 Information cannot be identified or found or does not exist
(1) If, after taking all reasonable steps to find the information, the public
sector organisation decides that:
(a) the information cannot be identified; or
(b) the organisation holds the information but cannot find it; or
(c) the information does not exist;
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the organisation must include in the notice of decision under
section 20 a statement to that effect.
(2) If the applicant is notified in the terms set out in subsection (1), the
public sector organisation is taken to have refused access to the