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Enacted 2005

The Right to Information

In force 31 sections Uttarakhand

This is a second copy of a Central Act. India Code files it on Uttarakhand's shelf as well as under Parliament, and the text is the same enactment. Read it at The Right to Information Act, 2005, which is the record this site keeps current.

Act 22 of 2005

Preamble

THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS Last Updated: 11-3-2022 CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY SECTIONS 1. Short title, extent and commencement. 2. Definitions. CHAPTER II Exemption from disclosure of informaAUTHOR RIGHT TO INFORMATION AND OBLIGATIONS OF PUBLIC AUTHORITIES 3. Right to information. 4. Obligations of public authorities. 5. Designation of Public Information Officers. 6. Request for obtaining information. 7. Disposal of request. 9. Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases. 10. Severability. 11. Third party information. CHAPTER III THE CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION 12. Constitution of Central Information Commission. 13. Terms of office and conditions of service. 14. Removal of Chief Information Commissioner or Information Commissioner. CHAPTER IV THE STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION 15. Constitution of State Information Commission. 16. Term of office and conditions of service. 17. Removal of State Chief Information Commissioner or State Information Commissioner. CHAPTER V POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONS, APPEAL AND PENALTIES 18. Powers and functions of Information Commissions. SECTIONS 19. Appeal. 20. Penalties. CHAPTER VI MISCELLANEOUS 21. Protection of action taken in good faith. 22. Act to have overriding effect. 23. Bar of jurisdiction of courts. 24. Act not to apply to certain organisations. 25. Monitoring and reporting. 26. Appropriate Government to prepare programmes. 27. Power to make rules by appropriate Government. 28. Power to make rules by competent authority. 29. Laying of rules. 30. Power to remove difficulties. 31. Repeal. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. THE SECOND SCHEDULE. IndiaCode THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005 ACT NO. 22 OF 2005 [15th June, 2005.] An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority, the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto. WHEREAS the Constitution of India has established democratic Republic; AND WHEREAS democracy requires an informed citizenry and transparency of information which are vital to its functioning and also to contain corruption and to hold Governments are their instrumentalities accountable to the governed; AND WHEREAS revelation of information in actual practice is likely to conflict with other public interests including efficient operations of the Governments, optimum use of limited fiscal resources and the preservation of confidentiality of sensitive information; AND WHEREAS it is necessary to harmonise these conflicting interests while preserving the paramountcy of the democratic ideal; Now, THEREFORE, it is expendient to provide for furnishing certain information to citizens who desire to have it. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY

Sections

Type to filter. 31 sections.

  1. 1Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2Definitions
  3. 3Right to information
  4. 4Obligations of public authorities
  5. 5Designation of Public Information Officers
  6. 6Request for obtaining information
  7. 7Disposal of request
  8. 8Exemption from disclosure of information
  9. 9Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases
  10. 10Severability
  11. 11Third party information
  12. 12Constitution of Central Information Commission
  13. 13Term of office and conditions of service
  14. 14Removal of Chief Information Commissioner or Information Commissioner
  15. 15Constitution of State Information Commission
  16. 16Term of office and conditions of service
  17. 17Removal of State Chief Information Commissioner or State Information Commissioner
  18. 18Powers and functions of Information Commissions
  19. 19Appeal
  20. 20Penalties
  21. 21Protection of action taken in good faith
  22. 22Act to have overriding effect
  23. 23Bar of jurisdiction of courts
  24. 24Act not to apply in certain organisations
  25. 25Monitoring and reporting
  26. 26Appropriate Government to prepare programmes
  27. 27Power to make rules by appropriate Government
  28. 28Power to make rules by competent authority
  29. 29Laying of rules
  30. 30Power to remove difficulties
  31. 31Repeal

Rules made under this Act

1 set of Rules. India Code publishes Rules as a record and a document rather than as text, so these are indexed here and not reproduced. All Rules.

  • The Uttarakhand High court right to information rules2009

Provenance. Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/3cec86fc-2de6-4338-861c-33e8b4f3a426.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/7e4468ae-816e-4696-9711-e7e9c4235964/content).

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