during each succeeding year, cause to be
published in the Gazette statements bringing
up to date the information contained in the
previous statement or statements published
under that subparagraph.
(2) Where a statement has not been published in accordance
with subsection (1), the Minister shall promptly give reasons, to be
published in the Gazette, for the failure to publish.
(3) Nothing in this section requires the publication of
information that is of such a nature that its inclusion in a document
would cause that document to be an exempt document.
(4) Where a public authority comes into existence on or after
the date of commencement of this Act, it shall comply with
subsection (1) as soon as practicable after the date it so comes into
existence.
Certain documents
to be available for
inspection and
purchase
22.
(1) This section applies to documents that are provided by
the public authority for the use of, or are used by, the public
authority or its officers in making decisions or recommendations,
under or for the purposes of any enactment or scheme administered
by the public authority, with respect to rights, privileges or benefits,
or to obligations, penalties or any detriment, to or for which persons
are or may be entitled or subject, being (a)
manuals or other documents containing
interpretations, rules, guidelines, practices or
precedents including, but without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, precedents in the
nature of letters of advice providing
information to bodies or persons outside the
public authority;
(b)
documents containing particulars of such a
scheme, not being particulars contained in any
other enactment; and
(c)
documents containing statements of the
manner, or intended manner, of
administration or enforcement of such an
enactment or scheme, but not including
documents that are available to the public as
published otherwise than by the public
authority or as published by another public
authority.
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