8.—(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.