Act 6
Access to Information Act
2005
currency points or imprisonment not exceeding three year or both.
47. Regulations.
(1) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make regulations for -
(a) any matter which is required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed;
(b) any matter relating to the fees including the procedures and guidelines for
determining when such fees should be waived or reduced;
(c) any notice required by this Act;
(d) forms for requests and places at which forms may be obtained;
(e) uniform criteria to be applied by the information officer when deciding which
categories of records are to be made available under section 8; and
(f) prescribing the categories of information that an information officer may refuse to
grant access to under sections 29,30,32, and 33;
(g) any administrative or procedural matter necessary to give effect to this Act.
(2) The fee for access to be prescribed by regulations under this section shall be a fee
representing the actual cost of retrieval and reproduction of the information.
(3) The Minister may prescribe in the regulations for the contravention of any
of the regulations, any penalty not exceeding two hundred and forty currency points
or imprisonment for a period not exceeding three years or both.
48. Power of Minister to amend Schedule.
The Minister may, by statutory instrument, with the approval of Cabinet, amend the
Schedule.
SCHEDULE
Section 3
CURRENCY POINT
One currency point is equivalent to twenty thousand Uganda Shillings.
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