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diff --git a/app/views/help/about.rhtml b/app/views/help/about.rhtml index a1c095730..aaf5e1f31 100644 --- a/app/views/help/about.rhtml +++ b/app/views/help/about.rhtml @@ -161,17 +161,16 @@ as there is no general obligation to prove your identity. <dt id="full_address">They've asked for my postal address!</dt> -<dd>If a public authority asks you for your full address, reply to them saying +<dd>If a public authority asks you for your full, physical address, reply to them saying that section 8.1.b of the FOI Act asks for an "address for correspondence", -and that the email address you are using is sufficient. The Department for -Constitutional Affairs has <a -href="http://www.dca.gov.uk/foi/guidance/proguide/chap04.htm">guidance on -this</a> – -<em>"Return address: There is no obligation to comply with a -request for information if it does not give a return address. If a request is -received by email and, although no postal address is given, the email -address of the sender is included, then this should be treated as the -return address."</em> +and that the email address you are using is sufficient. +The Ministry of Justice has <a href="http://www.justice.gov.uk/guidance/foi-procedural-what.htm">guidance +on this</a> – +<em>"As well as hard copy written correspondence, requests that are +transmitted electronically (for example, in emails) are acceptable +... If a request is received by email and no postal address is given, the email +address should be treated as the return address." +</em> </dd> <dt id="tracking">Why does the list of things that I'm tracking appear publically on the site?</dt> |