online services

Summary

The request sought details on Tynwald building closures during the pandemic, the strategic importance of online services, and 36 months of website statistics for Hansard and legislation. The authority provided monthly website usage data from November 2017 to December 2020 and internal emails regarding missing legislative documents, but did not fully address the qualitative assessment of the digitization effort or specific physical visitor statistics.

Key Facts

• The Office of the Clerk of Tynwald released 65 pages across 3 documents in response to the request.
• Website statistics were provided for a 36-month period from November 2017 to December 2020.
• Internal emails from June 2017 discuss missing Government Circulars and Secondary Legislation instruments.
• The response outcome was classified as 'Some information sent but not all held'.
• The request specifically asked for clarification on the exact dates of physical closure and reopening of parliament buildings.

Data Disclosed

• 2020-12-30
• 2021-01-26
• 65 pages
• 3 documents
• November 2017
• December 2020
• 5,216 users (Nov-17)
• 12,717 users (Jul-20)
• 1992/20
• 1992/22
• 1992/80
• 1992/420
• 2012/480
• 2012/505
• 2012/506
• 2012/707
• 2015/103
• 2016/140

Original Request

'what date did the parliament buildings largely close and largely reopen to the public, what is the relative importance of online services and in particular access to Hansard debates and secondary legislation (a) in lockdown and (b) in the new normal (c) in the old normal, what were the relevant website statistics per month in the most recent 36 months (Hansard debates and secondary legislation views and downloads) and is the comprehensive content, a multi-year effort to source, manually analyse with meticulous attention to detail, OCR scan and upload about half a million pages with extensive meta data, considered an exceptional achievement, for example, to highlight all Brexit related secondary legislation in minutes instead of months?' CLARIFICATION RECEIVED  I note 2 notices on the official website that imply a date closed and a date reopened: https://www.tynwald.org.im/about/news/Pages/2024.aspx dated 18th March 2020 https://www.tynwald.org.im/about/news/Pages/2057.aspx dated 18th June 2020 re 23rd June 2020 However, I am unclear on the exact period of disruption, firstly physical access to reference copies of Hansard debates by professional users (lawyers, bankers, insurers, accountants, auditors, think tanks, prospective members of Tynwald, academic researchers, lobbyists, etc) and by the general public, secondly external corporate policy at banks, insurance companies or instinctive self-preservation to avoid contact and thirdly social distancing requirements. For example, increasing and understandable risk management (for example transmission risk via plastic and metal surfaces up to 72 hours via reallocated laptops etc) before the 18th March 2020 and the Chief Minister briefings on sustained 0 cases in the community and a buffer period would be a sensible interpretation. Perhaps March 2020 to July 2020. The website statistics over 36 months should be "sufficient evidence" to demonstrate trends and relative strategic and operational value of the priceless contribution of comprehensive content to view and download and search text within limitations. Any monthly statistics on physical visitors to the premises (meetings and tours) would be useful comparative indicative data with a note that physical visitors to the Tynwald Library are not recorded, unless a contact tracing requirement was introduced. Monthly statistics on physical visitors to the Law Society library collection would be useful comparative indicative data.

Data Tables (47)

Full Response Text

Month of Year. Year Date / Month ALL Website Users Total website hits NEW website Users November 201711 Nov-17 5,216 54,218 3,822 December 201712 Dec-17 4,130 33,985 2,994 January 201801 Jan-18 6,424 60,715 4,929 February 201802 Feb-18 6,425 56,884 4,814 March 201803 Mar-18 6,746 58,682 5,147 April 201804 Apr-18 5,063 47,171 3,788 May 201805 May-18 6,622 60,043 5,107 June 201806 Jun-18 5,818 52,115 4,450 July 201807 Jul-18 9,131 63,963 7,351 August 201808 Aug-18 3,920 31,892 2,886 September 201809 Sep-18 4,582 33,178 3,540 October 201810 Oct-18 5,602 50,085 4,215 November 201811 Nov-18 5,539 55,824 4,149 December 201812 Dec-18 4,743 39,333 3,436 January 201901 Jan-19 5,697 52,384 4,298 February 201902 Feb-19 5,593 51,785 4,134 March 201903 Mar-19 5,645 54,763 4,114 April 201904 Apr-19 5,017 44,708 3,737 May 201905 May-19 5,385 51,241 4,025 June 201906 Jun-19 5,857 47,860 4,531 July 201907 Jul-19 9,322 64,676 7,586 August 201908 Aug-19 4,425 36,453 3,408 September 2019/09 Sep-19 4,997 36,069 4,027 October 2019/10 Oct-19 5,921 62,366 4,754 November 2019/11 Nov-19 6,177 63,907 4,870 December 2019/12 Dec-19 4,588 40,237 3,524 January 2020/1 Jan-20 5,741 55,289 4,565 February 2020/2 Feb-20 6,335 59,143 4,935 March 2020/3 Mar-20 8,091 66,325 6,702 April 2020/4 Apr-20 12,504 75,299 11,176 May 2020/5 May-20 9,439 75,370 7,716 June 2020/6 Jun-20 9,389 85,379 7,547 July 2020/7 Jul-20 12,717 77,158 10,905 August 2020/8 Aug-20 7,629 40,679 6,492 September 2020/9 Sep-20 6,941 41,809 5,878 October 2020/10 Oct-20 9,354 66,479 8,155 November 2020/11 Nov-20 9,150 69,789 7,786 December 2020/12 Dec-20 7,618 55,764 6,270

From:

Sent: 07 June 2017 12:17:00 To:

Subject: RE: Missing SDs

Sensitivity: Normal Attachments: EU-EXTRAS.xlsx ;1992-GC-0022.PDF ;1992-GC-0020.PDF ;1992-GC-0420.PDF ;1992-GC-0080.PDF ; I have attached a list with our meta data.

The first batch were older GCs and I have attached for convenience

The second batch of newer SDs were never received

Best regards,

From:

Sent: 07 June 2017 10:29 To:

Subject: FW: Missing SDs

Please see below list of instruments that we haven’t yet found – we have mainly identified them because they have been referenced in other instruments that we have been looking through.

Are you able to provide us with copies of any of these?

Many thanks,

From:

Sent: 07 June 2017 09:42 To: Cc: Subject: Missing SDs

I have identified some more instruments which do not appear on the Tynwald website or on the list gave us and as such are still missing from our spreadsheet. I was wondering if you could get back in contact with him to see if he can provide us with these final few documents please.

Instruments:

1992/20 1992/22 1992/80 1992/420 (These may well be government circulars)

2012/480 2012/505 2012/506 2012/707 2012/505 2015/103 2016/140

DOC TYPE DAY MONTH YEAR REF DRAFT TITLE GC 1992 0020 GC 1992 0022 GC 1992 0080 GC 1992 0420 SD 2012 0480 SD 2012 0505 SD 2012 0506 SD 2012 0707 SD 2015 0103 SD 2016 0140 TITLE TYNWALD PROCESS PROCESS DATE AUTHORITY CUSTOMS WAREHOUSING REGULATIONS 1991 (APPLICATION) ORDER 1992 APPROVAL 18/02/1992 TREASURY FREE ZONE REGULATIONS 1991 (APPLICATION) ORDER 1992 APPROVAL 18/02/1992 TREASURY CUSTOMS CONTROLS ON IMPORTATION OF GOODS REGULATIONS (APPLICATION) ORDER 1992 APPROVAL 15/04/1992 TREASURY DESIGN RIGHT (SEMICONDUCTOR TOPOGRAPHIES) ORDER 1992 APPROVAL 21/10/1992 GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL EUROPEAN UNION (SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN SANCTIONS) (NO 2) ORDER 2012 EUROPEAN UNION (SYRIA SANCTIONS) (APPLICATION) (AMENDMENT) (NO 2) ORDER 2012 SYRIA SANCTIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO 2) REGULATIONS 2012 SOMALIA SANCTIONS (ARMS EMBARGO, ETC) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2012 EUROPEAN UNION (COTE DIVOIRE SANCTIONS) (MILITARY ASSISTANCE) (AMENDMENT) ORDER 2015 EUROPEAN UNION (NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2016 ENABLING POWER ACTIVE TIME ACTIVE DATE NO LONGER ACTIVE TIME NO LONGER ACTIVE DATE MADE DATE CUSTOMS AND EXCISE ACTS (APPLICATION) ACT 1975#s1 01/01/1992 29/01/1992 CUSTOMS AND EXCISE ACTS (APPLICATION) ACT 1975#s1 01/01/1992 29/01/1992 CUSTOMS AND EXCISE ACTS (APPLICATION) ACT 1975#s1 11/03/1992 11/03/1992 DESIGN RIGHT ACT 1991#s42 01/11/1992 01/11/1994 09/07/1992 13:55 04/07/2012 13:55 04/07/2012 14:00 04/07/2012 08:10 14/06/2013 28/06/2016 AMENDS [OR SUSPENDS] [AMENDS OR] REVOKES IN PART OR IN FULL DOCUMENT STATUS STATUS1 LEGAL STATUS STATUS2 REVOKED BY SD-0520/2012- EUROPEAN UNION (SUDAN AND SOUTH SUDAN SANCTIONS) (NO 2) ORDER 2012

PENDING

PENDING

REVOKED

REVOKED BY SD-0516/2012- EUROPEAN UNION (SYRIA SANCTIONS) (APPLICATION) (AMENDMENT) (NO 3) ORDER 2012

PENDING

PENDING

REVOKED

REVOKED BY SD-0517/2012-SYRIA SANCTIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO 3) REGULATIONS 2012

PENDING

PENDING

REVOKED

REVOKED BY SD-0258/13-SOMALIA SANCTIONS (ARMS EMBARGO, ETC) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2013

PENDING

PENDING

REVOKED

REVOKED BY SD 2016/0223 EUROPEAN UNION (COTE DIVOIRE SANCTIONS) (REVOCATION) ORDER 2016

REVOKED

REVOKED BY SD 0178/2016 EUROPEAN UNION (NORTH KOREA SANCTIONS) (AMENDMENT) (NO 2) REGULATIONS 2016

PENDING

PENDING

REVOKED

i 4 Government Circular No.22/92 CUSTOMS AND EXCISE ACTS (APPLICATION) ACT 1975 THE FREE ZONE REGULATIONS 1991 (APPLICATION) ORDER 1992 In exercise of the powers conferred on the Treasury by section 1 of the Customs and Excise Acts (Application) Act 1975(a), and all other powers enabling it in that behalf, the following Order is hereby made: - Citation, commencement and construction 1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Free Zone Regulations 1991 (Application) Order 1992 and shall be construed as one with the Customs and Excise Acts (Application) Order 1979(b). (2) Subject to section 1(4) of the Customs and Excise Acts (Application) Act 1975, the applied legislation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st January 1992. Interpretation 2. In this Order, "the applied legislation" means the Free Zone Regulations 1991(c). Application 3. The applied legislation shall apply to the Island, as part of the law of the Island, subject to the exceptions, modifications and adaptations specified in the Schedule. (a)
c. 26.
(b)
G. C. 38/79.
(c)
S. I. 1991 No. 2727. Price 30p Printed by Authority Article 3
SCHEDULE EXCEPTIONS, MODIFICATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS SUBJECT TO WHICH THE FREE ZONE REGULATIONS 1991 (S.I. 1991 No. 2727) SHALL HAVE EFFECT IN THE ISLAND Regulation
Subject matter
Exceptions, modifications and adaptations
1. Commencement.
Omit the words from "and shall" onwards. 2. Interpretation.
(a) For "1979" substitute "1986". (b) For "section 1(1)" substitute "section 184(1)". 3. Repeals.
Omit. 4. and 5.
Amendments.
Omit. 6.
Offences.
(a) In sub-paragraph (d) - (i) for "100B" substitute "103", and (ii) for "regulation 3(2) above" substitute "section 17(1C) of the Value Added Tax and Other Taxes Act 1973". 7.
Supplementary. (b) In sub-paragraph (e) for "100C(4)" substitute "104(4)". (c) For "level 3 on the standard scale" substitute "E400". (a) In paragraph (1) for "section 139" substitute "section 146". (b) In paragraph (2) for "Sections 144 to 148 and 150 to 155" substitute "Sections 151 to 155 and 157 to 162". , Made this
29th
day of
January 1992 Minister for the Treasury This Order was approved by Tynwald on 18th February, 1992 EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is not part of the Order) From 1st January 1992 the administration of free zones will be governed by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2504/88 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 2562/90. However, free zones will continue to be designated under section 102 of the 1986 Act in Government Circulars. This application Order specifies the relevant provisions of the Community Regulations and provides for penalties and forfeiture for contravention of requirements set out in the instruments. • Government Circular No.20/S2 CUSTOMS AND EXCISE ACTS (APPLICATION) ACT 1975 CUSTOMS WAREHOUSING REGULATIONS 1991 (APPLICATION) ORDER 1992 In exercise of the powers conferred on the Treasury by section 1 of the Customs and Excise Acts (Application) Act 1975(a), and all other powers enabling it in that behalf, the following Order is hereby made: - Citation, commencement and construction 1. (1) This Order may be cited as the Customs Warehousing Regulations 1991 (Application) Order 1992 and shall be construed as one with the Customs and Excise Acts (Application) Order 1979(b). (2) Subject to section 1(4) of the Customs and Excise Acts (Application) Act 1975, the applied legislation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the 1st January 1992. Interpretation 2. In this Order, "the applied legislation" means the Customs Warehousing Regulations 1991(c). Application 3. The applied legislation shall apply to the Island, as part of the law of the Island, subject to the exceptions, modifications and adaptations specified in the Schedule. (a)
c. 26.
(b)
G.C. 38/79.
(c)
S.I. 1991 No. 2725. Price 30p Printed by Authority Article 3
SCHEDULE EXCEPTIONS, MODIFICATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS SUBJECT TO WHICH THE CUSTOMS WAREHOUSING REGULATIONS 1991 (S.I. 1991 No. 2725) SHALL HAVE EFFECT IN THE ISLAND Regulation
Subject matter
Exceptions, modifications and adaptations
1. Commencement.
Omit the words from "and shall" onwards. 2. Interpretation.
(a) For "1979" substitute "1986". (b) For "section 1(1)" substitute "section 184(1)". 3. Customs and Excise Management
Omit. Act 1979. 4. Value Added Tax.
Omit. 5. Offences.
For "level 3 on the standard scale" substitute "E400". 6. Supplementary.
(a) In paragraph (1) for "section 139" substitute "section 146". (b) In paragraph (2) for "Sections 144 to 148 and 150 to 155" substitute "Sections 151 to 155 and 157 to 162". Made this
29th
day of
January
1992 Minister for the Treasury This Order was approved by Tynwald on 18th February, 1992 EXPLANATORY NOTE (This note is note part of the Order) From 1st January 1992 the approval and administration of customs warehouses will be governed by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2503/88 and Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 2561/90, except in the case of victualling warehouses which will continue to be approved under section 93(2) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1986 for the purposes pf Article 38 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3665/87. This application Order specifies the relevant provisions of the Community Regulations and provides for penalties and forfeiture for contravention of requirements set out in the instruments. Government Circular No 420/92 THE DESIGN RIGHT ACT 1991 THE DESIGN RIGHT (SEMICONDUCTOR TOPOGRAPHIES) ORDER 1992 Approved by Tynwald
2J5( October
1992 Coming into operation 1st November 1992 Whereas the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989(a) were made under the European Communities Act 1972 (an Act of Parliament)(b) for the purpose of implementing obligations of the United Kingdom under the Community Treaties, namely Council Directive 87/54/EEC(c) and certain related Council Decisions Now therefore, for the purpose of giving effect in the law of the Island to the said Regulations, in exercise of the powers conferred on the Governor in Council by section 42 of the Design Right Act 1991(d), and of all other enabling powers, the following Order is hereby made:- Citation, commencement and interpretation 1.
(1) This Order may be cited as the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Order 1992 and, subject to section 50 of the Act, shall come into operation on the 1st November 1992. (2) In this Order - "the Act" means the Design Right Act 1991; "semiconductor product" means an article the purpose, or one of the purposes, of which is the performance of an electronic function and which consists of 2 or more layers, at least one of which is composed of semiconducting material and in or upon one or more of which is fixed a pattern appertaining to that or another function; "semiconductor topography" means a design within the meaning of section 1(2) of the Act which is a design of either of the following - (a) the pattern fixed, or intended to be fixed, in or upon - (i) a layer of a semiconductor product, or (ii) a layer of material in the course of and for the purpose of the manufacture of a semiconductor product, or (a) SI 1989/1100 (b) 1972 c.68 (c) OJ No.L24, 27.1.1987, p.36 (d) 1991 c.8 1 (b) the arrangement of the patterns fixed, or intended to be fixed, in or upon the layers of a semiconductor product in relation to one another. Application of the Act 2. In its application to a design which is a semiconductor topography, the Act shall have effect subject to articles 3 to 8. Qualification 3. (1) Section 1(5) of the Act has effect subject to paragraphs (2) to (4). (2) For section 5 substitute - N5.
(1) In this Act - "qualifying individual" means a citizen or subject of, or an individual habitually resident in, a qualifying country; and "qualifying person" means - (a) a qualifying individual, (b) a body corporate or other body having legal personality which has in any qualifying country or in Gibraltar a place of business at which substantial business activity is carried on, or (c) a person who falls within one of the additional classes set out in the Schedule to the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Order 1992. (2) References in this Act to a qualifying person include the Crown and the government of any other qualifying country. (3) In this section "qualifying country" means (a) the Isle of Man, (b) the United Kingdom, or (c) any other member State of the European Economic Community. (4) The reference in the definition of "qualifying individual" to a person's being a citizen or subject of a qualifying country shall be construed in relation to the Island or the United Kingdom as a reference to his being a British citizen. 2 (5) In determining for the purpose of the definition of "qualifying person" whether substantial business activity is carried on at a place of business in any country, no account shall be taken of dealings in goods which are at all material times outside that country.". (3) Where a semiconductor topography is created in pursuance of a commission or in the course of employment and the designer of the topography -is, by virtue of section 3 of the Act (as substituted by article 4), the first owner of design right in that topography, section 7 of the Act does not apply and section 6(2) to (4) of the Act shall apply to the topography as if it had not been created in pursuance of a commission or in the course of employment. (4) Section 8 has effect subject to article 6 and as if for subsection (1) there were substituted - "(1) A design which does not qualify for design right protection under section 6 or 7 (as modified

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