The Environmental Information Regulations 1992

Existing rights to information

5.  Where any information which is not information to which these Regulations apply is required under any statutory provision to be made available to any person, the arrangements made by any relevant person for giving effect to the requirements of that provision shall be such as to secure—

(a) that every request for information relating to the environment which is made for the purposes of that provision is responded to as soon as possible;

(b) that no such request is responded to more than two months after it is made;

(c) that, where the response to such a request contains a refusal to make information available, the refusal is in writing and specifies the reasons for the refusal; and

(d) that no charge that exceeds a reasonable amount is made for making information relating to the environment available in accordance with that provision.