to issue an order adding an agency or topic to the list of agencies in sub-section (A); the validity of
this order shall be for a period to be determined, which shall not exceed six months, unless the order
was previously canceled; if the order specifies a period of less than six months, the Minister of
Justice is entitled to extend the order, provided that the total period does not exceed six months.
3. The Minister of Justice is entitled, with the approval of the Knesset Constitution, Law, and
Justice Committee, to determine by order that this law shall not apply to a corporation, as delineated
in sub-paragraphs (7) and (8) of the definition of a public authority in this section, while taking due
notice of the degree of harm liable to be caused to the economic or business activity of the
corporation; such an order shall be given for a corporation controlled by a local authority, following
consultation with the Minister of the Interior, or for another corporation, after consultation with the
minister responsible for the law under which the corporation was founded.
4. The stipulations of this law shall not apply to information given by the public authority to
the State Archives, under the Archives Law (5715-1955).
15. Discussions of the joint committee
1. Meetings of the joint committee shall be classified, unless decided otherwise.
2. The joint committee is entitled to determine that an order approved by it under Sections 9 or
14 shall not be published in the Official Gazette of the Israeli government, either all or in part.
16. Correcting information
If a person receives information about himself under this law, and finds that the information is
incorrect, incomplete, unclear, or out of date, he is entitled to ask the public authority to correct it;
the stipulations of Sections 14 and 15 of the Protection of Privacy Law shall apply in this matter,
with the necessary changes.
17. A court appeal
1. When a request for information under this law is rejected, or when a public authority has
rejected the objection by a third party under Section 13, the person making the request or the third
party, whichever is relevant, is entitled to file an appeal to the Administrative Court within 30 days
of being notified of the decision; however, if the requested information has been certified as
classified under Section 44 of the Evidence Ordinance (New Version – 5731-1971), the Supreme
Court shall hear the appeal.
2. In hearing the appeal, except for an appeal of a rejected request under Section 8, the court is
entitled to obtain access and read all the requested information; the court is entitled, for reasons
listed in Section 9, to hear pleading from the public authority’s legal representative behind closed
doors, without the presence of the appellant or his legal representative.
3. The court shall not order giving information that is liable to harm the rights of a third party,
unless the third party has been given an opportunity to voice his objections, in a manner to be
determined.
4. Despite the stipulations of Section 9, the court is entitled to order that all or part of the
information be provided, under terms to be determined, when, in the court’s opinion, there is a
public interest in the disclosure of the information that takes precedence over the grounds for
rejecting the request, provided that disclosure of the information is not forbidden by law.
5. If the court decides as stipulated in sub-sections (B) or (D) above, it shall state the grounds
for its decision.
18. Fees