Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Fees) (No. 2) Regulations 2014

JurisdictionIreland
CitationIR SI 531/2014

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 28th November, 2014.

I, BRENDAN HOWLIN, Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 3 and 27 of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (No. 30 of 2014) hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Fees) (No. 2) Regulations 2014.

2. (1) In these Regulations—

“dependant of a medical card holder” means a person—

(a) by or in respect of whom it has been established, to the satisfaction of the Health Service Executive, that he or she is a dependant of a medical card holder and by or in respect of whom that fact has been established to the satisfaction of the head concerned, and

(b) by or in respect of whom, in the opinion of the head, the application concerned is not being made on behalf of some other person who, in the opinion of the head, is seeking to avoid the payment of a fee of the amount specified in paragraph (1) or (2) of Regulation 4.

“medical card holder” means a person who—

(a) has established, to the satisfaction of the Health Service Executive, that he or she has full eligibility for health services (within the meaning of the Health Act 1970 ) and has established that fact to the satisfaction of the head concerned, and

(b) in the opinion of the head, is not making the application concerned on behalf of some other person who, in the opinion of the head, is seeking to avoid the payment of a fee of the amount specified in paragraph (1) or (2) of Regulation 4.

(2) In these Regulations a reference to a section or part of a section is to that section or part of that section of the Freedom of Information Act 2014 (No. 30 of 2014).

3. (1) Subject to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4)—

(a) an amount of €20.00 per hour is prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (a) of section 27(3), and

(b) the following amounts are prescribed for the purposes of paragraph (b) of section 27(3):

(i)4 cent per sheet in relation to a photocopy;

(ii)€10.00 in relation to a CD ROM (a compact disk read-only memory);

(iii) €6.00 in relation to an x-ray.

(2) Subject to paragraph (4), the appropriate maximum amount under paragraph (1), for the purposes of paragraph (c) of section 27(3), is prescribed as €500.

(3) The appropriate minimum amount under paragraph (1), for the purposes of paragraph (d) of section 27(3), is prescribed as €101.

(4) The overall ceiling limit under paragraph (1), for the purposes of paragraph...

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