1997/13
Freedom of Information Act 1997
Introduced
13 December 1996
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Enacted
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Irish
An tAcht um Shaoráil Faisnéise, 1997
Summary
Act to enable members of the public to obtain access, to the greatest extent possible consistent with the public interest and the right to privacy, to information in the possession of public bodies and to enable persons to have personal information relating to them in the possession of such bodies corrected and, accordingly, to provide for a right of access to records held by such bodies, for necessary exceptions to that right and for assistance to persons to enable them to exercise it, to provide for the independent review both of decisions of such bodies relating to that right and of the operation of this Act generally (including the proceedings of such bodies pursuant to this Act) and, for those purposes, to provide for the establishment of the office of Information Commissioner and to define its functions, to provide for the publication by such bodies of certain information about them relevant to the purposes of this Act, to amend the Official Secrets Act, 1963, and to provide for related matters
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Freedom of Information Act 1997
Freedom of Information Act 1997
pdf · EN · 21 April 1997
As passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas
pdf · EN · 10 April 1997
As passed by Dáil Éireann
pdf · EN · 10 April 1997
As amended in Committee [Seanad Éireann]
pdf · EN · 5 February 1997
An tAcht um Shaoráil Faisnéise, 1997
pdf · GA · 21 April 1997
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- Legal framework · Freedom of Information Act 1997 · 1997/13 · IE
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- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/1996/63/
- Open data entity: https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/1996/63