3. After consulting with the Minister for Justice, the minister concerned may lay down
rules on the duty to make notes for specific groups of cases concerning the exercise of
administrative activity other than that referred to in paragraph 1.
Chapter 3
Exceptions to the right of access to administrative documents
Case documents subject to exemption
Section 7
1. The right of access to files shall not apply to an authority's internal working
documents. Internal working documents shall include
1) any document prepared by an authority for its own use;
2) correspondence between units within the same authority, and
3) correspondence between a local council and its committees, departments and
other bodies, or between those bodies.
Section 8
Notwithstanding Section 7, the right of access to files shall include internal working
documents in their final form if
1) the documents contain only the substance of the authority's final decision on the
outcome of a case;
2) the documents contain only information that the authority had a duty to record
pursuant to Section 6;
3) the documents are self-contained instruments drawn up by an authority to provide
proof or clarity concerning the actual facts of a case, or
4) the documents contain general guidelines for the consideration of certain types of
cases.
Section 9
1. Notwithstanding Section 7, any person whose health is the subject of a hospital case
record shall be entitled to have access to that record.
2. The right of access may, however, be limited to the extent it is considered appropriate
that the person's interest in access should give way to overriding considerations for the
person himself or for other private interests.
Other documents subject to exemption
Section 10
The right of access to files shall not apply to:
1) records of meetings of the Council of State, minutes of meetings of ministers and
documents prepared by an authority for use at such meetings;