Freedom of the Mass Media and Access to Information Proclamation No ...
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article includes information:
a)
relating to military operation, exercises, military tactics or stratery undertaken in preparation of hostilities or in
connection with the detection, prevention, suppression or curtailment of subversive or hastile activities.
b)
relating to the quantity, characteristics, copacity, power, vulnerabilities or function or capability or deployment or
utility of weapons or any other equipment used for the detecting, preventing or supressing or curtailing of subversive or
hostile activities or any thing being designed, developed, produced or considered for use as weapons or such other
equipment;
c)
relating to the characteristics ,capabilities vulnerability, potential, deployment or function of any military force , unit
or personnel or anybody or person entrusted with the task of detecting, preventing ,suppressing or curtailing hostile or
subversive activities or
d)
on methods of, and scientific or technical equipment for, collecting, assessing or handling information referred to in
this sub article under (a),(b),(c)and(f)
e)
or
on the identity of a confidential source and any other source of information referred to in this sub-article under (f);
f)
held for the purpose of intelegence relating to the national defence or relating to the detection, defence,
suppression or curtailment of subversive or hostile activities or relating to another state or an international organization or
used by or on behalf of the country in the process of deliberation and consultation in the conduct of international affairs
g)
information supplied by or on behalf of the country to another state or an international organization in terms of an
international agreement or arrangement with that state or organization which requires the information to be held in
confidence; or
h)
required to be held in confidence by an international agreement or international customary law; or
i)
on the positions adopted or to be adopted by the country, another state or an international organization for the
purpose of present or future international negotiations; or
j)
that constitutes diplomatic correspondence exchanged with another state or with an international organization or
official correspondence exchanged with diplomatic missions or consular posts of the country.
24. Cabinet Documents
1)
The public relation officer shall not permit any request for an access to a cabinet record or a request to conform
the existence or non existence of information contained in a cabinet record other than those records that are made
available to the general public by the decision of the cabinet.
2)
Without prejudice to sub article (1)of this Article, a cabinet document shall include:
a)
a record that has been submitted to the cabinet for its consideration or is proposed by a head of the public body to
be so submitted, being a document that was brought into existence for the purpose of submission for consideration by
the cabinet;
b)
an official document of a cabinet;
c)
a document that is a copy of, or a part of, or contains an extract from, the document referred to in sub-article(a)or
(b); or
d)
a record the disclosure of which would involve the disclosure of any deliberation or decision of cabinet, or its
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