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No.6
Interpretation
Cap.2
Access to Information Act
2016
3. In this Act, unless the context requires
otherwise:
“Constitution” means the Constitution of the United
Republic,1977;
“exempt information” means any information, or
document containing information, withheld by the
information holder in accordance with section 6;
“information” means any material which communicates
facts, opinions, data or any other matter relating to
the management, administration, operations or
decisions of the information holder, regardless of
its form or characteristics;
“information holder” means a public authority or a private
body referred to under section 2 (2);
“information officer” means an officer of the information
holder appointed as such under section 7;
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for legal
affairs;
“personal information” means information relating to an
individual who is directly or indirectly identifiable
by name, identification document or through any
physical or other characteristics or attributes, but
does not include information having a bearing on
the public functions of an employee of a public
authority or any other person performing a
function of a public authority;
“public authority ” means any authority that is established
by or under the Constitution, an Act of Parliament,
recognized under any written law as a public
office or forms part of any level of the
Government;
“records” include any recorded information regardless of
form or medium created, received and maintained
by any information holder in the pursuance of its
legal obligations or in the transaction of its
business and providing evidence of the
performance of those obligations or that business.