Section 3 — Freedom of Information Act 2000: Public authorities.

Public authorities. 3 1 In this Act “ public authority ” means—

a subject to section 4(4), any body which, any other person who, or the holder of any office which—

i is listed in Schedule 1, or ii is designated by order under section 5, or b a publicly-owned company as defined by section 6.

2 For the purposes of this Act, information is held by a public authority if—

a it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person, or b it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.