9. Fees shall be limited to standard charges for document duplication and transcription where Fees. necessary. 10. (1) Every government or public institution shall ensure that it keeps every information or Record keeping record about the institution’s operations, personnel, activities and other relevant or related and information or records. maintenance of records. (2) Every government or public institution shall ensure the proper organization and maintenance of all information or record in its custody, in a manner that facilitates public access to such information or record under this Bill. 11. It shall be a criminal offence punishable on conviction by a competent Court with a Destruction or minimum of 1 year imprisonment for any officer or the head of any government or public falsification of institution to which this Bill applies to willfully destroy any records kept in his/her custody or records. attempts to doctor or otherwise alter same before they are released to any person, entity or community applying for it. 12. (1) A public institution may deny an application for any information the disclosure of which Exemption of may be injurious to the conduct of international affairs and the defence of the Federal Republic international affairs and of Nigeria. defence. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), an application for information shall not be denied where the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs whatever injury disclosure would cause. Exemption of law (a) records complied by any public institution for administrative enforcement enforcement proceedings and by any law enforcement or correctional agency for law enforcement and purposes or for internal matters of a public institution, but only to the extent that investigation. disclosure would— 13. (1) A public institution may deny an application for any information which contains— (i) interfere with pending or actual and reasonably contemplated law enforcement proceedings conducted by any law enforcement or correctional agency; (ii) interfere with pending administrative enforcement proceedings conducted by any public institution; (iii) deprive a person of a fair trial or an impartial hearing; (iv) unavoidably disclose the identity of a confidential source; (v) constitute an invasion of personal privacy under section 15 of this Bill, however, where the interest of the public would be better served by having such record being made available, this exemption to disclosure shall not apply; Page 5 of 13 House of Reps.