Section 10Part 2 — Right of Access
Forms of access
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Access to a record may be granted to an applicant in one or more of the following forms —
the applicant may be afforded a reasonable opportunity to inspect the record;
the authority concerned may furnish the applicant with a copy of the record;
in the case of a record from which sounds or visual images are capable of being reproduced, arrangements may be made for the applicant to hear the sounds or view the visual images;
in the case of a record by which or in which words are —
recorded in a manner in which they are capable of being reproduced in the form of sound and images; or
contained in the form of shorthand writing or in codified form,
the applicant may be furnished with a transcript of the data or the words, sounds and images recorded or contained in that record.
Subject to subsection (3), where an applicant requests that access be given in a particular form, access shall be given in that form.
A public authority may grant access in a form other than that requested by an applicant where the grant of access in the form requested would —
be detrimental to the preservation of the record, or be inappropriate, having regard to its physical state;
constitute an infringement of intellectual property rights subsisting in any matter contained in the record.
Copies of records to which access is granted shall be authenticated by such persons and in such manner as may be determined by the Attorney General, including by whom and how this will be done.
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