Official Information
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(c)
a description of all manuals, and similar types of documents
which contain policies, principles, rules, or guidelines in
accordance with which decisions or recommendations are
made in respect of any person or body of persons in his or
her or its personal capacity; and
(d)
a statement of any information that needs to be available to
members of the public who wish to obtain official
information from the Ministry or organisation, which
statement shall include particulars of the officer or officers
to whom requests for official information or particular
classes of information should be sent.
(2)
The Office of the Prime Minister shall, at intervals of not more than
2 years, bring the material contained in the publication published under subsection (1) of
this section up to date either by publishing a new edition of that publication or by
publishing supplementary material.
(3)
In complying with subsection (2), the Office of the Prime Minister
may publish a new edition or supplementary material on an internet website and in an
electronic form that is publicly accessible at all reasonable times, so long as the Office also
publishes that edition or material in any other manner and form that is necessary in light of
the need specified in subsection (5).
(4)
Each Ministry and each organisation shall assist the Office of the
Prime Minister to comply with subsections (1) and (2) of this section and shall supply to
that Office such information as it requires for the purposes of those subsections.
(5)
In complying with subsection (1) and (2) of this section, the Office
of the Prime Minister shall have regard, among other things, to the need to assist members
of the public to obtain official information and to effectively exercise their rights under this
Act.
(6)
Where there is good reason under section 6 or section 7 or section 8
(2)(b) of this Act for withholding official information, nothing in this section requires the
publication of that official information.
23.
Right of access to certain official information – (1) Every person has a right
to and shall, on request made under this subsection, be given access to the latest edition of
the publication published under section 22 of this Act and to any published supplementary
material bringing that edition up-to-date.
(2)
Every qualified person has a right to and shall, on request made
under this subsection, be given access to any category of official information that is
declared by regulations made under this Act to be a category of official information in
respect of which a right of access exists.
(3)
The giving of access to any official information to which subsection
(2) of this section applies shall be subject to the provisions of any regulations made under
this Act.
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