Cap. 546 Art. 13Available formats.

(1) Without prejudice to the Schedule, public sector bodies and public undertakings shall make their documents available in any pre-existing format or language and, where possible and appropriate, by electronic means, in formats that are open, machine-readable, accessible, findable and re-usable, together with their metadata. Both the format and the metadata shall, where possible, comply with formal open standards.

(1a) Public sector bodies and public undertakings are encouraged to, where possible, produce and make available documents openly as established in this Act in accordance with the principle of open by design and by default as referred to in Directive (EU) 2019/1024.

(2) Public sector bodies shall not be obliged to:

(a) create or adapt a document; or

(b) provide an extract from a document in order to comply with sub-article (1) where this would involve disproportionate effort, going beyond a simple operation.

(3) Sub-article (1) shall apply to existing documents held by public undertakings which are available for re-use.

(4) The high-value datasets, as listed in accordance with the Schedule, shall be made available for re-use in machine-readable format, via suitable APIs and, where relevant, as a bulk download.