Act 6 Access to Information Act 2005 PART III - EXEMPTION FROM ACCESS 23. Interpretation. A provision of this Part under which a request for access to a record shall or may or may not be refused, may not be construed as (a) limited in its application in any other such provision of this Part in terms of which a request for access to a record shall or may or may not be refused; and (b) not applying to a particular record by reason that another provision of this Part also applies to that record. 24. Access subject to conditions (1) a person is entitled to access information or a record of a public body if that person complies with all the requirements of this Act relating to a request for access to that information or record; and access to that information or record is not prohibited by this Part. (2) A request made under subsection (1) may be for information or records containing personal information relating to the person requesting the information. 25. Cabinet Minutes and those of its Committees (1) Subject to subsection (2), cabinet minutes shall not be accessible to any person other than an authorized public officer. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Minister may, from time to time by regulations made under section 47, prescribe the categories of records which shall or may be released after the expiration of seven years, fourteen years, and twenty one years respectively after the record came into existence. 26. Protection of information relating to privacy of the person. (1) Subject to subsection (2), an information officer may refuse a request for access if its disclosure would involve the unreasonable disclosure of personal information about a person, including a deceased individual. (3) A person may be granted access to a record referred to in subsection (1) in so far as the record consists of information (a) about a person who has consented in writing to its disclosure to the person requesting the record; (b) that was given to the public body by the person to whom it relates and the person 16