Under 16 social media ban

​​​Request 849306765

Please advise of any communications from the UK Government in reference to Jersey implementing under 16 social media ban.

Response

The Ministry of External Relations does hold information in respect of the above request. However, it has been estimated that to extract, gather and review this information it would exceed the cost limit provisions set out in the Freedom of Information (Costs) (Jersey) Regulations 2014. Therefore, Article 16 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been found to apply.

Articles Applied

Article 16 - A scheduled public authority may refuse to supply information if cost excessive

1. A scheduled public authority that has been requested to supply information may refuse to supply the information if it estimates that the cost of doing so would exceed an amount determined in the manner prescribed by Regulations.

2. Despite paragraph (1), a scheduled public authority may still supply the information requested on payment to it of a fee determined by the authority in the manner prescribed by Regulations for the purposes of this Article.

3. Regulations may provide that, in such circumstances as the Regulations prescribe, if two or more requests for information are made to a scheduled public authority –

4. by one person; or

5. by different persons who appear to the scheduled public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign, the estimated cost of complying with any of the requests is to be taken to be the estimated total cost of complying with all of them.