A request seeks records that include another person's medical details. What sequence of severability review, exemption analysis, public-interest assessment and third-party procedure should the decision file show?
The requested record has been mapped and the personal-information exemption has been reviewed.
First identify which portions are genuinely responsive. Record the personal-information exemption analysis, consider whether the public-interest test changes the result, and assess whether non-exempt portions can be severed. If the proposed decision engages the third-party procedure, document the notice, representation and reasons without reproducing the medical details in routine correspondence.
A staged analysis shows that the authority considered disclosure, exemption and partial access separately rather than refusing the record as a whole.
RTI Act, 2005 — sections 8(1)(j), 10 and 11; check current binding decisions for the jurisdiction.
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