Responding to a request for re-use8
1
A public sector body must respond to a request for re-use promptly and in any event before the end of the twentieth working day beginning with the day after receipt.
2
Where documents requested for re-use are extensive in quantity or the request raises complex issues the public sector body may extend the period for responding by such time as is reasonable in the circumstances.
3
Where paragraph (2) applies, the public sector body must, before the end of the twentieth working day beginning with the day after receipt, notify the applicant in writing—
a
that no decision on re-use has yet been reached; and
b
of an estimated date by which it expects to respond to the request for re-use.
4
In this regulation, responding to a request for re-use means—
a
refusing the request for re-use;
b
making the requested document available to the applicant for re-use; or
c
where conditions are to be imposed on re-use under regulation 12, finalising the offer to the applicant of the conditions on which re-use will be permitted.