Information Commissioner Gutierrez issued Decision 14/2020 which annulled the Ministry of Health’s decision which “administratively denied” a PATI request about correspondence about cannabis law or policy as “frivolous or vexatious.”
A spokesperson said, “Information Commissioner Gutierrez issued Decision 14/2020, Ministry of Health Headquarters [Ministry], involving a Public Access to Information [PATI] request for the Ministry’s external correspondence about cannabis, cannabinoids, cannabis law or policy, or cannabinoid law or policy. The Ministry’s decision administratively denied the PATI request as frivolous or vexatious under section 16[e] of the PATI Act 2010. The Information Commissioner annulled the Ministry’s decision.
“The Information Commissioner found that, when viewed in the totality of the circumstances, that the Ministry did not justify denying the PATI request as frivolous or vexatious under section 16[1][e] of the PATI Act. Specifically, the…
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