Francis Davey wrote:
So <shrug> there is no neat answer - a court might decide that the act
meant for the administrative staff of the Commons to be complying with
this kind of request (otherwise section 10 fails to work and we have
an anomaly) or might imply into the statute an exception for the
dissolution of Parliament. I have no feel for how that would fall.
Out of interest, here's what they said at the 2005 election:
http://foia.blogspot.com/2005/04/dissolution-of-parliament-parliament.html
"will in some cases not be practical [...] to reply to requests under
the Freedom of Information Act 200 [sic] within twenty working days.",
but said they'd be earlier "whenever possible".
ATB,
Matthew
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