Practice question
A covered office receives a compliant request for voluminous archived records. It invokes extensive search as a reason for extension but announces a six-month delay without explaining any exceptional circumstance and refuses to notify the requester of reasons. Which analysis follows Section 9(e)?
- A search reference automatically removes every time and notice requirement.
- The order allows specified extensions but requires notice and reasons, and limits extension to twenty working days unless exceptional circumstances warrant longer.
- Every archive request must be denied automatically.
- Only the requester may grant the office a new constitution.
- The ordinary period becomes unlimited whenever paper is involved.
Legal references
- Executive Order No. 2, July 23, 2016, Sections 1 and 9-13: https://lawphil.net/executive/execord/eo2016/eo_2_2016.html
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