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Access to Information Act
2005
PART III - EXEMPTION FROM ACCESS
23. Interpretation.
A provision of this Part under which a request for access to a record shall or may or may not
be refused, may not be construed as (a) limited in its application in any other such provision of this Part in terms of which a
request for access to a record shall or may or may not be refused; and
(b) not applying to a particular record by reason that another provision of this Part also
applies to that record.
24. Access subject to conditions
(1) a person is entitled to access information or a record of a public body if that person
complies with all the requirements of this Act relating to a request for access to that
information or record; and access to that information or record is not prohibited by this
Part.
(2) A request made under subsection (1) may be for information or records containing
personal information relating to the person requesting the information.
25. Cabinet Minutes and those of its Committees
(1) Subject to subsection (2), cabinet minutes shall not be accessible to any person other
than an authorized public officer.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Minister may, from time to time by regulations
made under section 47, prescribe the categories of records which shall or may be released
after the expiration of seven years, fourteen years, and twenty one years respectively after
the record came into existence.
26. Protection of information relating to privacy of the person.
(1) Subject to subsection (2), an information officer may refuse a request for access if its
disclosure would involve the unreasonable disclosure of personal information about a
person, including a deceased individual.
(3) A person may be granted access to a record referred to in subsection (1) in so far as
the record consists of information (a) about a person who has consented in writing to its disclosure to the person
requesting the record;
(b) that was given to the public body by the person to whom it relates and the person
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