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Letter from RNLI to Chief Minister in 2017 (FOI)

Letter from RNLI to Chief Minister in 2017 (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 01 February 2023.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

​Request

On the 21 July 2017, the then Chief Minister, Senator Ian Gorst wrote a letter to the then CEO of the RNLI [name redacted]. The letter starts "Many thanks for your letter of 11 July 2017". I ask that the letter dated 11 July 2017 from [name redacted] to Senator Gorst is made public.

Response

Please see attached letter dated 11 July 2017. Personal details have been redacted and Article 25 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Letter - Redacted.pdf

Article applied

 Article 25 - Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

3)      In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.

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