The Freedom of Information Bill, 2012 A Bill for AN ACT of Parliament to provide for the establishment of the Kenya Freedom of Information Commission; to provide for access to information in the possession of public authorities; to provide for proactive publication and dissemination of information; and for connected purposes ENACTED by the Parliament of Kenya as follows - Short title and commencement. Interpretation. PART I—PRELIMINARY 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Freedom of Information Act, 2012, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette appoint, and different dates may be appointed for different provisions 2. In this Act unless the context otherwise requires; “Commission” means the Freedom of Information and Data Protection Commission established by section 4; “commissioner” means a member of the Commission appointed under section 9; “edited copy” in relation to a document, means a copy of a document from which exempt information has been deleted; “exempt information” means information withheld by a public authority in accordance with section 27; “Committee means the Parliamentary Departmental Committee responsible for information and communications; “information” includes any documentary material regardless of its physical form or characteristics, and any copy thereof, any record, correspondence, memorandum, book, plan, map, drawing, film, microfiche, diagram, pictorial or graphic work, data, photograph, recording, audio or video-tape, machine readable material and any other information held in electronic form whether on computer disk or tape or in the memory of a computer or other device, anything that contains information, letters, reports, studies, records, minutes, statistics, directives, instructions, circulars, memoranda, practice notes, opinions, decisions in writing whether in form of sound, visual recordings or computerized data, any material recorded or stored by any means including tape, computer, or other device and any material subsequently derived from information so recorded or stored whether manually, mechanically or electronically and anything that is part or a copy, in any form, of any of the foregoing or is a combination of two or more of the foregoing;