not disclosed pursuant to the provision of this Act.
(3)
28.
29.
No civil or criminal proceeding shall lie against any person receiving the information or further disclosing it.
(1)
The fact that any information in the custody of a public institution is kept by that institution under security
classification or is classified document within the meaning of the Official Secrets Act does not preclude it from being
disclosed pursuant to an application for disclosure thereof under the provisions of this Act, but in every case the
public institution to which the application is made shall decide whether such information is of a type referred to in
Sections 11,12,14,15,16,17,19,20 or 21 of this Act.
(2)
If the public institution to which the application in subsection (1) is made decides that such information is not
a type mentioned in the sections referred to in subsection (1), access to such information shall be given to the
applicant.
(3)
if the public institution, to which the application mentioned in subsection (1) is made, decides that such
information is of a type mentioned in sections referred to in subsection (1), it shall give notice to the
applicant.
(1)
On or before February 1 of each year, each public institution shall submit to the Attorney-General of the
Federation a report which shall cover the preceding fiscal year and which shall include –
(a)
the number of determinations made by the public institution not to comply with applications for
information made to such public institution and the reasons for such determinations;
(b)
the number of appeals made by persons under this Act, and the reason for the action upon each appeal
that results in a denial of information;
(c)
a description of whether the Court has upheld the decision of the public institution to withhold
information under such circumstances and a concise description of the scope of any information
withheld;
(d)
the number of applications for information pending before the public institution as of October 31 of the
preceding year and the median number of days that such application had been pending before the
public institution as of that date;
(e)
the number or applications for information received by the public institution and the number of
applications; which the public institution processed;
(f)
the median number of days taken by the public institution to process different types of
applications for information;
(g)
the total amount of fees collected by the public institution to process such applications; and
(h)
the number of full-time staff of the public institution devoted to processing applications for
information, and the total amount expended by the public institution for processing such applications.
(2)
Each public institution shall make such report available to the public, among other means, by computer and
telecommunications, or if computer and telecommunications means have not been established by the
government or public institution, by other electronic means.
(3)
The Attorney -General shall make each report, which has been submitted to him, available to the public in
hard copies, online and also at a single electronic access point
(4)
The Attorney General shall notify the Chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on
Government Reform Oversight of the House of Representatives and the Chairman and ranking minority
member of the Committees on Government Affairs and the judiciary of the Senate, not later than April of the
year in which each such report is issued, of the existence of such report and make it available to them in hard
copies as well as by electronic means.
(5)
The Attorney-General shall develop reporting and performance guidelines in connection with reports required
by this section and may establish additional requirements for such reports as the Attorney-General determines
may be useful.