The Freedom of Information Bill, 2012
A Bill for
AN ACT of Parliament to provide for the establishment of the Kenya
Freedom of Information Commission; to provide for access to information in
the possession of public authorities; to provide for proactive publication and
dissemination of information; and for connected purposes
ENACTED by the Parliament of Kenya as follows -
Short title and
commencement.
Interpretation.
PART I—PRELIMINARY
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Freedom of Information Act,
2012, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister
may, by notice in the Gazette appoint, and different dates may be
appointed for different provisions
2.
In this Act unless the context otherwise requires;
“Commission” means the Freedom of Information and Data
Protection Commission established by section 4;
“commissioner” means a member of the Commission appointed
under section 9;
“edited copy” in relation to a document, means a copy of a document
from which exempt information has been deleted;
“exempt information” means information withheld by a public
authority in accordance with section 27;
“Committee means the Parliamentary Departmental Committee
responsible for information and communications;
“information” includes any documentary material regardless of its
physical form or characteristics, and any copy thereof, any record,
correspondence, memorandum, book, plan, map, drawing, film,
microfiche, diagram, pictorial or graphic work, data, photograph,
recording, audio or video-tape, machine readable material and any
other information held in electronic form whether on computer disk
or tape or in the memory of a computer or other device, anything that
contains information, letters, reports, studies, records, minutes,
statistics, directives, instructions, circulars, memoranda, practice
notes, opinions, decisions in writing whether in form of sound, visual
recordings or computerized data, any material recorded or stored by
any means including tape, computer, or other device and any
material subsequently derived from information so recorded or
stored whether manually, mechanically or electronically and
anything that is part or a copy, in any form, of any of the foregoing
or is a combination of two or more of the foregoing;