The Access to Information Bill,2015 (d) keep the public adequately informed about the existence of any danger to public health or safety or to the environment; and (e) ensure that any statutory authority with regulatory responsibilities is adequately discharging its functions. (6) Unless the contrary is proved by the public entity or private body, information is presumed not to be exempt if the information has been held for a period exceeding thirty years. (7) Any person who discloses exempt information in contravention of this Act commits an offence and is liable, on conviction, to a term not exceeding three years, but it shall not be an offence if the exempt information disclosed is in public domain. PART III-ACCESS TO INFORMATION 7. (1) A chief executive officer of a public entity shall be an information access officer for purposes of this Act. (2) A chief executive officer of a public entity may delegate the performance of his or her duties as an information access officer under this Act to any officer of Designation of information access officer. l i the public entity. 8. (1) An application to access information shall be made in English or Kiswahili and the applicant shall provide details and sufficient particulars for the public officer or any other official to understand what information is being requested. (2) Despite subsection (1), an applicant who, because of illiteracy or disability, is unable to make a written request for access to information in accordance with subsection (1) may make that request orally and the public officer concerned shall reduce the oral request to writing in the prescribed form and provide a copy to the applicant. (3) A public entity may prescribe a form for making an application to access information, but any such form shall not be such as to unreasonably delay requests or place an undue burden upon applicants and no application may be rejected on the ground only that the applicant has not used the prescribed form. I Application for access.

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