- Academy arrangements
has the meaning given by section 1 of the Academies Act 2010;
- administration in the United Kingdom
means—
- appropriate Northern Ireland Minister
means the Northern Ireland Minister in charge of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure in Northern Ireland;
- arbitration
means any arbitration to which Part I of the Arbitration Act 1996 applies.
- body
includes an unincorporated association;
- college
includes any institution in the nature of a college.
- company
includes any body corporate;
- copyright owner
has the meaning given by Part 1 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (see section 173 of that Act);
- copyright work
has the meaning given by Part 1 of the Act of 1988 (see section 1(2) of that Act);
- court
includes any tribunal or body exercising the judicial power of the State,
- criminal proceedings
includes service law proceedings (as defined by section 324(5) of the Armed Forces Act 2006);
- data subject
has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act);
- database
has the meaning given by section 3A of the Act of 1988;
- database right
has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Copyright and Rights in Databases Regulations 1997 ( S.I. 1997/3032);
- dataset
has the meaning given by section 11(5);
- decision notice
has the meaning given by section 50;
- enactment
includes an enactment contained in Northern Ireland legislation;
- enforcement notice
has the meaning given by section 52;
- environmental information regulations
means—
- excluded authority
means a public authority which is designated by the Secretary of Stateor the Minister for the Cabinet Office by order as an excluded authority for the purposes of that paragraph.
- exempt information
means information which is exempt information by virtue of any provision of Part II;
- fees notice
has the meaning given by section 9(1);
- governing body
has the meaning given by Article 30(3) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1993.
- government department
includes a Northern Ireland department... and any other body or authority exercising statutory functions on behalf of the Crown, but does not include— (a) any of the bodies specified in section 80(2), (b) the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service or the Government Communications Headquarters,...
- government policy
includes the policy of the Executive Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the policy of the Welsh Assembly Government;
- higher education corporation
has the meaning given by section 90(1) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, and
- information
includes unrecorded information.
- information notice
has the meaning given by section 51;
- inquiry
means any inquiry or hearing held under any provision contained in, or made under, an enactment, and
- international court
means any international court which is not an international organisation and which is established— (a) by a resolution of an international organisation of which the United Kingdom is a member, or (b) by an international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a party;
- international organisation
means any international organisation whose members include any two or more States, or any organ of such an organisation;
- managers
has the meaning given by Article 2(2) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986.
- Minister of the Crown
has the same meaning as in the Ministers of the Crown Act 1975;
- Ministerial communications
means any communications— (a) between Ministers of the Crown, (b) between Northern Ireland Ministers, including Northern Ireland junior Ministers, or (c) between members of the Welsh Assembly Government and includes, in particular, proceedings of the Cabinet or of any committee of the Cabinet, proceedings of the Executive Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly, and proceedings of the Cabinet or any committee of the Cabinet of the Welsh Assembly Government;
- Ministerial private office
means any part of a government department which provides personal administrative support to a Minister of the Crown, to a Northern Ireland Minister or a Northern Ireland junior Minister or any part of the administration of the Welsh Assembly Government providing personal administrative support to the members of the Welsh Assembly Government;
- Northern Ireland junior Minister
means a member of the Northern Ireland Assembly appointed as a junior Minister under section 19 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.
- Northern Ireland Minister
includes the First Minister and deputy First Minister in Northern Ireland;
- Northern Ireland public authority
means any public authority, other than the Northern Ireland Assembly or a Northern Ireland department, whose functions are exercisable only or mainly in or as regards Northern Ireland and relate only or mainly to transferred matters;
- offence
includes a service offence (as defined by section 50 of that Act).
- premises
includes any vessel, vehicle, aircraft or hovercraft, and references to the occupier of any premises include references to the person in charge of any vessel, vehicle, aircraft or hovercraft.
- prescribed
means prescribed by regulations made by the Minister for the Cabinet Office;
- proceedings in a particular cause or matter
includes any investigation under Part 1 of the Coroners and Justice Act 2009, any inquest under the Coroners Act (Northern Ireland) 1959 and any post-mortem examination,
- proprietor
has the meaning given by section 579(1) of the Education Act 1996.
- public authority
has the meaning given by section 3(1);
- public record
means a public record within the meaning of the Public Records Act 1958 or a public record to which the Public Records Act (Northern Ireland) 1923 applies;
- publication scheme
has the meaning given by section 19;
- publicly-owned company
has the meaning given by section 6.
- registered higher education provider
has the meaning given by section 3(10) of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017,
- relevant authority
means—
- relevant copyright work
means— (a) a copyright work, or (b) a database subject to a database right, but excludes a relevant Crown work or a relevant Parliamentary work;
- relevant Crown work
means— (a) a copyright work in relation to which the Crown is the copyright owner, or (b) a database in relation to which the Crown is the owner of the database right;
- relevant forces
means— or any part of any of those forces.
- relevant Parliamentary work
means— (a) a copyright work in relation to which the House of Commons or the House of Lords is the copyright owner, or (b) a database in relation to which the House of Commons or the House of Lords is the owner of the database right;
- relevant public authority
means any public authority listed in Schedule 1 other than— a government department, or any authority which is listed only in relation to particular information
- relevant services
means—
- request for information
has the meaning given by section 8;
- State
includes the government of any State and any organ of its government, and references to a State other than the United Kingdom include references to any territory outside the United Kingdom.
- subordinate legislation
has the meaning given by subsection (1) of section 21 of the Interpretation Act 1978, except that the definition of that term in that subsection shall have effect as if “Act” included Northern Ireland legislation;
- the Aarhus Convention
means the Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters signed at Aarhus on 25th June 1998.
- the appropriate authority
means—
- the appropriate limit
means such amount as may be prescribed, and different amounts may be prescribed in relation to different cases.
- the Commission
means the Information Commission;
- the Commissioner
means the Information Commissioner;
- the court
means the High Court or, in Scotland, the Court of Session.
- the data protection legislation
has the same meaning as in the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3 of that Act);
- the data protection principles
means the principles set out in— (a) Article 5(1) of the UK GDPR, and (b) section 34(1) of the Data Protection Act 2018;
- the date of receipt
means— (a) the day on which the public authority receives the request for information, or (b) if later, the day on which it receives the information referred to in section 1(3);
- the duty to confirm or deny
has the meaning given by section 1(6);
- the Government Communications Headquarters
includes any unit or part of a unit of the armed forces of the Crown which is for the time being required by the Secretary of State to assist the Government Communications Headquarters in carrying out its functions.
- the information Acts
means this Act and the Freedom of Information Act 2000.”
- the Law Officers
means the Attorney General, the Solicitor General, the Advocate General for Scotland, the Lord Advocate, the Solicitor General for Scotland, the Counsel General to the Welsh Assembly Government and the Attorney General for Northern Ireland;
- the relevant death
means—
- the special forces
means those units of the armed forces of the Crown the maintenance of whose capabilities is the responsibility of the Director of Special Forces or which are for the time being subject to the operational command of that Director;
- the specified licence
has the meaning given by section 11A(8).
- the UK GDPR
has the same meaning as in Parts 5 to 7 of the Data Protection Act 2018 (see section 3(10) and (14) of that Act).
- transferred public record
has the meaning given by section 15(4);
- unstructured personal data
means any personal data falling within paragraph (e) of the definition of “data” in section 1(1), other than information which is recorded as part of, or with the intention that it should form part of, any set of information relating to individuals to the extent that the set is structured by reference to individuals or by reference to criteria relating to individuals. 2 A public authority is not obliged to comply with subsection (1) of section 7 in relation to any unstructured personal data unless the request under that section contains a description of the data. 3 Even if the data are described by the data subject in his request, a public authority is not oblige
- Welsh public authority
has the meaning given by section 83.
- working day
means any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday or a day which is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of the United Kingdom.
- year
means a calendar year.