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THE GAZETTER OF INDIA EXTRAORDINARY
[PART II—
(b) encourage public authorities to participate in the development and
organisation of programmes referred to in clause (a) and to undertake such
programmes themselves;
(c) promote timely and effective dissemination of accurate information by public
authorities about their activities; and
(d) train Central Public Information Officers or State Public Information Officers,
as the case may be, of public authorities and produce relevant training materials
for use by the public authorities themselves.
(2) The appropriate Government shall, within eighteen months from the
commencement of this Act, compile in its official language a guide containing such
information, in an easily comprehensible form and manner, as may reasonably be required
by a person who wishes to exercise any right specified in this Act.
(3) The appropriate Government shall, if necessary, update and publish the guidelines
referred to in sub-section (2) at regular intervals which shall, in particular and without
prejudice to the generality of sub-section (2), include—
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
(h)
(i)
the objects of this Act;
the postal and street address, the phone and fax number and, if available,
electronic mail address of the Central Public Information Officer or State
Public Information Officer, as the case may be, of every public authority
appointed under sub-section (1) of section 5;
the manner and the form in which request for access to an information shall be
made to a Central Public Information Officer or State Public Information
Officer, as the case may be;
the assistance available from and the duties of the Central Public Information
Officer or State Public Information Officer, as the case may be, of a public
authority under this Act;
the assistance available from the Central Information Commission or State
Information Commission, as the case may be;
all remedies in law available regarding an act or failure to act in respect of a
right or duty conferred or imposed by this Act including the manner of filing
an appeal to the Commission;
the provisions providing for the voluntary disclosure of categories of records in
accordance with section 4;
the notices regarding fees to be paid in relation to requests for access to an
information; and
any additional regulations or circulars made or issued in relation to obtaining
access to an information in accordance with this Act.
(4) The appropriate Government must, if necessary, update and publish the guidelines at
regular intervals.
27. (1) The appropriate Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette,
make rules to carry out the provisions of this Act.
(2) In particular, and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such
rules may provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:—
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
the cost of the medium or print cost price of the materials to be disseminated
under sub-section (4) of section 4;
the fee payable under sub-section (1) of section 6;
the fee payable under sub-sections (1) and (5) of section 7;
the salaries and allowances payable to and the terms and conditions of service
of the officers and other employees under sub-section (6) of section 13 and
Power to make
rules by
appropriate
Government
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