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  Freedom of Information Bill
  
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  The majority of Lords voted in favour of an amendment to the Freedom of Information Bill which removed a fixed time limit for providing a response to a request for information in cases where public authorities consider a "public interest test".  The time limit for a response where a "public interest test" is carried out became "such time as is reasonable in the circumstances". Without this amendment the time limit would have been a fixed number of working days, as applies to cases where no "public interest test" is carried out. 
  
  The amendment read:
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  <p pid="a.1006.0/3" pwmotiontext="moved">("(2A) If, and to the extent that--</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1006.0/4" pwmotiontext="moved">(a) section 1(1)(a) would not apply but for paragraphs (a) and (b) of section (Effect of exemptions)(1), or</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1006.0/5" pwmotiontext="moved">(b) section 1(1)(b) would not apply but for paragraphs (a) and (b) of section (Effect of exemptions)(2),</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1006.0/6" pwmotiontext="moved">the public authority need not comply with section 1(1)(a) or (b) until such time as is reasonable in the circumstances; but this subsection does not affect the time by which any notice under section 15(1) must be given.").</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1006.4/1" pwmotiontext="considered">On Question, Whether the said amendment (No. 79) shall be agreed to?</p>
  
  <p pid="a.1006.4/2" pwmotiontext="divided">Their Lordships divided: Contents, 48; Not-Contents, 12.</p>
  
  
  
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