http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/36/section/21/2003-08-19Freedom of Information Act 2000An Act to make provision for the disclosure of information held by public authorities or by persons providing services for them and to amend the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Public Records Act 1958; and for connected purposes.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2026-04-092003-08-19 Part II211Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1 is exempt information.2For the purposes of subsection (1)—ainformation may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, andbinformation is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.3For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a public authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the information is available from the public authority itself on request, unless the information is made available in accordance with the authority’s publication scheme and any payment required is specified in, or determined in accordance with, the scheme.