The Freedom of Information Bill, 2012
Reports by public
authorities.
46. (1) On or before the first day of February of each year, every
public authority shall submit to the Commission a report covering
the proceeding year, which shall include (a) the number of requests for information received by the
authority and the number of requests processed;
(b) the number of determinations made by the authority not to
comply with the requests for information under section
27, and the reasons for each such determination;
(c) the number of applications for review made by persons
under section 36, the result of such applications, and the
reason for the action upon each application that results in
a denial of information;
(d) the average number of days taken by the authority to
process different types of requests;
(e) the total amount of fees collected by the public authority
while processing requests;
(f) the number of full-time staff of the public authority
devoted to processing requests for information ant the
total amount expended by the authority for processing
such requests.
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