Freedom of Information Act 1997 (1997/13) — Ireland

Official titles

Authentic titles published by the source. The stored canonical title is not replaced.

1 official language

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

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

13 December 1996
Published
13 December 1996
First Stage
Source: Seanad Éireann
19 December 1996
Second Stage
Source: Seanad Éireann
29 January 1997
Committee Stage
Source: Seanad Éireann
12 February 1997
Report Stage
Source: Seanad Éireann
12 February 1997
Fifth Stage
Source: Seanad Éireann
11 March 1997
Second Stage
Source: Dáil Éireann
25 March 1997
Committee Stage
Source: Dáil Éireann
10 April 1997
Report Stage
Source: Dáil Éireann
10 April 1997
Fifth Stage
Enacted
Source: Dáil Éireann
21 April 1997
Enacted
21 April 1997
Enacted
21 April 1997
Enacted
Enacted

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

5 official files

An tAcht um Shaoráil Faisnéise, 1997

View file Download file

Reading translation

Translate this document into your language. PoliticalRepo does not store a separate copy per EU language.

Translate to

On-demand whole-document translation with a downloadable PDF (logo + link to the official source). The official file stays authoritative.

An tAcht um Shaoráil Faisnéise, 1997
pdf · GA · 21 April 1997
View Download Open at official source
Freedom of Information Act 1997
pdf · EN · 21 April 1997
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
As passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas
pdf · EN · 10 April 1997
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
As passed by Dáil Éireann
pdf · EN · 10 April 1997
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.
As amended in Committee [Seanad Éireann]
pdf · EN · 5 February 1997
View Download Open at official source
Leesvertaling
Vertaal dit document naar jouw taal. PoliticalRepo bewaart geen aparte kopie per EU-taal.
Vertaal naar
Documentvertaling op verzoek met downloadbare PDF (logo + link naar de officiële bron). Het bronbestand blijft leidend.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.

Related across the Repo ecosystem

Direct relationships are identifier-backed. Topic context means shared TopicMembership — not a citation and not causation.

Direct relationships

Legal framework · Freedom of Information Act 1997 · 1997/13 · IE

Identifier matchPROJECTS_FROM
Same ireland record bill-1996-63 projected from PoliticalRepo IE row.
Freedom of Information Act 1997

Sources

PoliticalRepo is an index and interpretation layer, not the authoritative legal source.

Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/1996/63/
Open data entity: https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/1996/63
ireland · bill-1996-63 · source updated 20 November 2019

Freedom of Information Act 1997