14.—(1) Where a Scottish public authority has received a request to make environmental information available and does not hold that information but believes that another public authority holds the information requested then it shall either–
(a)transfer the request to the other authority; or
(b)supply the applicant with the name and address of that other authority,
and inform the applicant accordingly with the refusal sent in accordance with regulation 13.
(2) Where a request is transferred, in accordance with this regulation, to a Scottish public authority, the request shall be treated as received by the receiving authority for the purposes of regulations 5(2), 6(2)(a) and 13(a) on the date that it is so received and any period within which the authority is required to respond to that request by these Regulations shall begin on the day following that date.