Access to Public Information Act: an answer within ten days (art. 42, Decreto 57-2008)

The Access to Public Information Act (Decreto 57-2008, art. 42) requires the obliged body's Information Unit to resolve within ten days of admitting the request, in one of four ways: deliver the information; refuse it when the applicant failed to clarify or complete the request in time; refuse it wholly or partly as reserved or confidential; or declare that it does not exist. Art. 43 allows an extension when the volume and length of the answer justify it. This is the route the platform's access-request letters rely on.

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