4 No.6 Interpretation Cap.2 Access to Information Act 2016 3. In this Act, unless the context requires otherwise: “Constitution” means the Constitution of the United Republic,1977; “exempt information” means any information, or document containing information, withheld by the information holder in accordance with section 6; “information” means any material which communicates facts, opinions, data or any other matter relating to the management, administration, operations or decisions of the information holder, regardless of its form or characteristics; “information holder” means a public authority or a private body referred to under section 2 (2); “information officer” means an officer of the information holder appointed as such under section 7; “Minister” means the Minister responsible for legal affairs; “personal information” means information relating to an individual who is directly or indirectly identifiable by name, identification document or through any physical or other characteristics or attributes, but does not include information having a bearing on the public functions of an employee of a public authority or any other person performing a function of a public authority; “public authority ” means any authority that is established by or under the Constitution, an Act of Parliament, recognized under any written law as a public office or forms part of any level of the Government; “records” include any recorded information regardless of form or medium created, received and maintained by any information holder in the pursuance of its legal obligations or in the transaction of its business and providing evidence of the performance of those obligations or that business.