Right to Information Wiki

Encyclopedia on RTI for everyone
You will find the Guide to Online RTI.

User Tools

Site Tools

You are here: RTI Wiki » Common Terms » RTI Act or Statutory Rules for giving information under RTI Act 2005
explanations:rti-act-or-statutory-act

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revisionPrevious revision
Next revision		Previous revision
Next revisionBoth sides next revision
important-decisions:cic-case-laws:rti-act-or-statutory-act [2014/07/08 02:53] – Shrawanimportant-decisions:cic-case-laws:rti-act-or-statutory-act [2015/07/16 01:30] – Shrawan
Line 5: Line 5:
 </WRAP> </WRAP>
    
- 
 The inference from the text of this sub-section and, especially the three expressions quoted above, is that an information to which a citizen will have a right should be shown to be a) an information which is accessible under the RTI Act and b) that it is held or is under the control of a certain public authority. This should mean that unless an information is exclusively held and controlled by a public authority, that information cannot be said to be an information accessible under the [[pages:rti-act|RTI Act]]. Inferentially it would mean that once a certain information is placed in the public domain accessible to the citizens either freely, or on payment of a pre-determined price, that information cannot be said to be ‘held’ or ‘under the control of’ the public authority and, thus would cease to be an information accessible under the [[pages:rti-act|RTI Act]]. The inference from the text of this sub-section and, especially the three expressions quoted above, is that an information to which a citizen will have a right should be shown to be a) an information which is accessible under the RTI Act and b) that it is held or is under the control of a certain public authority. This should mean that unless an information is exclusively held and controlled by a public authority, that information cannot be said to be an information accessible under the [[pages:rti-act|RTI Act]]. Inferentially it would mean that once a certain information is placed in the public domain accessible to the citizens either freely, or on payment of a pre-determined price, that information cannot be said to be ‘held’ or ‘under the control of’ the public authority and, thus would cease to be an information accessible under the [[pages:rti-act|RTI Act]].
  
Line 15: Line 14:
  
 The Act therefore vests in the public authority the power and the right to prescribe the mode of access to voluntarily disclosed information, i.e. either free or at a prescribed cost / price. The Act therefore vests in the public authority the power and the right to prescribe the mode of access to voluntarily disclosed information, i.e. either free or at a prescribed cost / price.
 +
 +===== Go back ===== 
 +[[important-decisions:]] 
  
 ===== Citations ===== ===== Citations =====
explanations/rti-act-or-statutory-act.txt · Last modified: 2017/04/14 03:28 by Shrawan