A person may require a local assessor to give him access to such information as will enable him to establish what is the state of a list, or has been its state at any time since it came into force, if—
A person may require a localauthority to give him access to such information as will enable him to establish what is the state of a copy of a list, or has been its state at any time since it was deposited, if—
A person may require a localauthority to give him access to such information as will enable him to establish what is the state of a copy of a proposed list if—
A requirement under subsection (1), (2) or (3) above must be complied with at a reasonable time and place and without payment being sought; but the information may be in documentary or other form, as the person or authority of whom the requirement is made thinks fit.
Where access is given under this section to information in documentary form the person to whom access is given may—
Where access is given under this section to information in a form which is not documentary the person to whom access is given may—
If a reasonable charge is required for a facility under subsection (5) or (6) above, the subsection concerned shall not apply unless the person seeking to avail himself of the facility pays the charge.
If a person having custody of a document containing, or having control of access to, information access to which is sought under this section—
he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.
It shall be a defence for a person charged with an offence under subsection (8) above to prove that he had a reasonable excuse for acting as he did.