Summary: The complainant originally made a request to the Craigavon & Banbridge Trust on 21st January 2005 for copy records in relation to the complainant-™s overseas adoption application. That public authority provided the complainant with that information held by it and transferred part of the request relating to the information held by the Southern Area Adoption Panel to the Chairman of the said panel at Newry & Mourne Health & Social Services Trust. The Trust did not supply the information requested by the complainant in its entirety until 4th November 2006. The Commissioner finds that the Trust did not deal with the request in accordance with the requirements of Part I of the Act because it considerably exceeded the time for compliance, as set out in Section 10 of the Act.
Section of Act/EIR & Finding: FOI 10 - Complaint Upheld