The Access to Information
Bill,2015
(d) keep the public adequately informed about the
existence of any danger to public health or safety
or to the environment; and
(e) ensure that any statutory authority with regulatory
responsibilities is adequately discharging its
functions.
(6) Unless the contrary is proved by the public entity
or private body, information is presumed not to be exempt
if the information has been held for a period exceeding
thirty years.
(7) Any person who discloses exempt information in
contravention of this Act commits an offence and is liable,
on conviction, to a term not exceeding three years, but it
shall not be an offence if the exempt information disclosed
is in public domain.
PART III-ACCESS TO INFORMATION
7. (1) A chief executive officer of a public entity
shall be an information access officer for purposes of this
Act.
(2) A chief executive officer of a public entity may
delegate the performance of his or her duties as an
information access officer under this Act to any officer of
Designation of
information
access officer.
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the public entity.
8. (1) An application to access information shall be
made in English or Kiswahili and the applicant shall
provide details and sufficient particulars for the public
officer or any other official to understand what information
is being requested.
(2) Despite subsection (1), an applicant who, because
of illiteracy or disability, is unable to make a written
request for access to information in accordance with
subsection (1) may make that request orally and the public
officer concerned shall reduce the oral request to writing in
the prescribed form and provide a copy to the applicant.
(3) A public entity may prescribe a form for making
an application to access information, but any such form
shall not be such as to unreasonably delay requests or place
an undue burden upon applicants and no application may
be rejected on the ground only that the applicant has not
used the prescribed form.
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Application for
access.