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StatuteFreedom of Information Act 2000

Section 14 — Freedom of Information Act 2000: Vexatious or repeated requests.

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Vexatious or repeated requests. 14 1 Section 1(1) does not oblige a public authority to comply with a request for information if the request is vexatious.

2 Where a public authority has previously complied with a request for information which was made by any person, it is not obliged to comply with a subsequent identical or substantially similar request from that person unless a reasonable interval has elapsed between compliance with the previous request and the making of the current request.

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