When is the deadline for foia internal review outcome?
The catalogue records a 20 working-days period from Receipt by the public authority of the request for an internal review (or, where clarification is needed, receipt of that clarification: para 5.6). This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Period
- 20 working-days
- Trigger
- Receipt by the public authority of the request for an internal review (or, where clarification is needed, receipt of that clarification: para 5.6)
- Counting
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- Rollovers and holidays
- Holiday, closure and order treatment must be independently documented before publication.
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- Wholly a best-practice target with no sanction attached. Code para 5.5: "If an internal review is complex, requires consultation with third parties or the relevant information is of a high volume, public authorities may need longer than 20 working days to consider the issues and respond. In these instances, the public authority should inform the applicant and provide a reasonable target date by which they will be able to respond to the internal review. It is best practice for this to be no more than an additional 20 working days, although there will sometimes be legitimate reasons why a longer extension is needed." Overrun is common and is not itself a breach of FOIA.
- Para 5.6: "In the event that clarification of an internal review request is required from the applicant, the normal 20 working day time period will not begin until it is received." Para 5.7: authorities on an extended s.10(4) period (schools, armed forces) should apply the same extended timescales to internal reviews. In practice an applicant who has waited beyond 40 working da