Section 28. The Board shall have the powers and duties as follows: (1) to supervise and give advice with regard to the performance of duties of State officials and State agencies for the implementation of this Act; (2) to give advice to State officials or State agencies with regard to the implementation of this Act as requested; (3) to give recommendations on the enactment of the Royal Decrees and the issuance of the Ministerial Regulations or the Rules of the Council of Ministers under this Act; (4) to consider and give opinions on the complaints under section 13; (5) to submit a report on the implementation of this Act to the Council of Ministers from time to time as appropriate but at least once a year; (6) to perform other duties provided in this Act; (7) to carry out other acts as entrusted by the Council of Ministers or the Prime Minister. Section 29. A qualified member appointed under section 27 shall hold office for the term of three years as from the date of appointment. The outgoing qualified member may be re-appointed. Section 30. In addition to the vacation of office at the expiration of the term. a qualified member appointed under section 27 vacates office upon: (1) death; (2) resignation; (3) being removed by the Council of Ministers by reason of misconduct, improper or dishonest performance of his duties, or incapability; (4) being a bankrupt; (5) being an incompetent or quasi-incompetent person; (6) having been imprisoned by a final judgment to a term of imprisonment, except for an offence committed through negligence or a petty offence. Section 31. At a meeting of the Board, the presence of not less than one-half of the total number of the members is required to constitute a quorum. The Chairman shall preside over the meeting. If the Chairman is not present at the meeting or is unable to perform his duties, the members present may elect one among themselves to preside over the meeting. The decision of the meeting shall be by a majority of votes. Each member shall nave one vote. In the case of an equality of votes, the presiding member shall have an additional vote as a casting vote. Section 32. The Board shall have the power to summon any person to give statements or to furnish an object, document or evidence for its consideration. Section 33. In the case where a State agency denies that there is such information as requested, whether it is the case under section 11 or section 25, if the person so requesting does not believe that it is true and lodges a complaint v;ith the Board under section 13, the Board shall have the power to inspect the relevant official information and notify the complainant of the result of the inspection. The State agency or State official shall allow the Board or the person entrusted by the Board to inspect the information which is in its or his possession, whether or not it is the information permitted to be disclosed. Section 34. The Board may appoint a sub-committee for considering any inatter or performing any act as entrusted by the Board, and the provisions of section 31 shall apply muta1is mutandis. CHAPTER VI Information Disclosure Tribunals Section 35. There shall be Information Disclosure Tribunals in appropriate fields, which are appointed by the Council of Ministers upon the recommendation of the Board, having the power and duty to consider and decide an appeal against an order prohibiting the disclosure of information under section 14 or section 15, order dismissing an objection under section 17 and order refusing the correction, alteration or deletion of personal information under section 25. The appointment of Information Disclosure Tribunals under paragraph one shall be made on the basis of the specialized fields of the official information, such as the fields of national security, national economy and finance or law enforcement. Section 36. Each Information Disclosure Tribunal consists of such number of persons as necessary, but shall not be less than three persons, and the Government officials appointed by the Board shall act as Secretary and Assistant Secretaries. In considering the information of any State agency, the member of the Information Disclosure Tribunal who is from that State agency shall not participate in such consideration. Members of the Information Disclosure Tribunal shall not be Secretary or Assistant Secretaries. Section 37. The Board shall consider sending the appeals to the Information Disclosure Tribunals on the basis of their specialization within seven days as from the date of the receipt thereof.

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