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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, 1994
No. 9 of 1994
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. Short title.
2. Commencement.
3. Interpretation.
4. Act not to apply to courts and registries
5. Office of the Governor-General not to be deemed to be a Department.
PART II
PUBLICATION OF CERTAIN DOCUMENTS AND
INFORMATION
6. Publication of information concerning documents.
7. Certain documents to be available for inspection and purchase.
8. Unpublished documents not to prejudice public.
PART III ACCESS TO DOCUMENTS
9. Right of access.
10. Procedure for obtaining access to certain documents.
11. Access to documents apart from this Act.
12. Requests for access.
13. Transfer of requests.
14. Requests involving use of computers, etc.
15. Access to documents to be given on request.
16. Time within which formal requests to be decided.
17. Forms of access.
18. Deferment of access.
19. Deletion of exempt matter.
20. Decision to be made by authorized persons.
21. Reasons and other particulars of decisions to be given.
PART IV
EXEMPT DOCUMENTS