The Access to Information Act, 2016 ―electronic record‖ means a record generated in digital form by an information system, which can be transmitted within an information system or from one information system to another and stored in an information system or other medium; ―exempt information‖ means information that may be withheld by a public entity or private body in accordance with section 6; ―information‖ includes all records held by a public entity or a private body, regardless of the form in which the information is stored, its source or the date of production; ―information access officer‖ means any officer of a public entity or private body designated under section 7 as such for purposes of this Act; ―interested party‖ means a person who has an identifiable stake or legal interest in the proceedings before the court but is not a party to the proceedings or may not be directly involved in the litigation; ―national security‖ has the same meaning assigned to it by Article 238(1) of the Constitution; ―person‖ has the meaning assigned to it in Article 260 of the Constitution; ―personal information‖ means information about an identifiable individual, including, but not limited to— (a) information relating to the race, gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, national, ethnic or social origin, colour, age, physical, psychological or mental health, well-being, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, language and birth of the individual; 4

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