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====== West Bengal RTI Rules ====== | ====== West Bengal RTI Rules ====== | ||
+ | RTI Rules((Regd No. WB/ | ||
+ | ===== PART I - Orders and Notifications by the Governor of West Bengal, the High Court, Government Treasury etc. ===== | ||
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+ | GOVERNMENT OF WEST BENGAL | ||
+ | Personnel & | ||
+ | Administrative. Reforms Cell. | ||
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+ | ===== NOTIFICATION ===== | ||
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+ | No. I 57-PAR (AR}~ I0th March, 2006- In exercise of the power conferred by sub-section(1) read with sub- section (2) of Section 27 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of2005), the Governor is pleased hereby to make the following rules, namely :- | ||
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+ | **Rules** | ||
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+ | 1. Short title and commencement - | ||
+ | (1) These rules may be called the West Bengal Right to Information Rules, 2006. | ||
+ | (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazzate. | ||
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+ | **2. Definitions: | ||
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+ | (1) In these rules, unless the context otherwise requires, - | ||
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+ | (a) " | ||
+ | (b) “Commission” means the West Bengal Information Commission; | ||
+ | (c) “Registrar” means the Registrar of the Commission; | ||
+ | (d) “Section” means section of the Act; | ||
+ | (e) “State Government” means the Government of West Bengal. | ||
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+ | (2) Words and expressions used and not defined in these rules but defined in the Act, shall have the same meanings as respectively assigned to them in the Act. | ||
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+ | **3. Application fee -** | ||
+ | An application containing a request in writing to the State Public Information Officer or the State Assistant Public Information Officer, as the case may be, made under sub-section (I) of Section 6 for obtaining information, | ||
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+ | **4. 'Fee for providing information -** | ||
+ | Save as otherwise provided in the provision to sub-section (5) of Section '7, the State Public Information Officer or the State Assistant Public Information Officer, as the case may be, shall provide Information under sub-section (I), and sub-section (5), of Section 7 upon receipt or a request under Section 6, on payment of a fee of - | ||
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+ | (a) rupees two, for each page (in A-4 or A-3 size paper) created or copied; or | ||
+ | (b) actual charge or cost price, for a copy in large size paper; or | ||
+ | (c) actual cost price, for sample or model; or | ||
+ | (d) rupees five for each fifteen minutes or fraction thereof, for inspection of records; or | ||
+ | (e) rupees fifty per diskette or floppy, for information provided in the diskette or floppy; or | ||
+ | (f) actual charge fixed for publication or rupees two per page of photocopy for extracts there from | ||
+ | for information provided in printed form. | ||
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+ | ** 5. Contents of appeal to Commission under sub-Section (3) of Section 19 -** | ||
+ | An appeal to the Commission under sub-section (3) of Section 19, shall contain the following information, | ||
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+ | (a) Name and address of the applicant; | ||
+ | (b) Name and address of the State Public Information Officer or the State Assistant Public | ||
+ | Information Officer, as the case may be, who passed the order; | ||
+ | (c) Particulars of the order against which the appeal is made including its number and date; | ||
+ | (d) Brief facts of the case; | ||
+ | (e) Prayer or relief sought for by the appellant; | ||
+ | (f) Grounds for such prayer relief; and | ||
+ | (g) Verification by the appellant | ||
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+ | **6. Documents to accompany appeal to Commission under sub-section (3) of Section 19 –** | ||
+ | Every appeal made to the Commission shall be accompanied by the following documents, namely:- | ||
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+ | (a) the attested true copy of the order against which the appeal is being preferred; | ||
+ | (b) the copies of the documents relied upon by the appellant and referred to in the appeal; and | ||
+ | (c) an index of the documents referred to in the appeal. | ||
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+ | ** 7. Procedure in deciding appeal to Commission under sub-section (30 of Section 19 –** | ||
+ | (1) In deciding the appeal to the commission, the commission shall :- | ||
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+ | (a) Hear, oral or written, evidence on oath or on affidavit from the concerned or interested person; | ||
+ | (b) Peruse or inspect documents, public records or copies thereof. | ||
+ | (c) Enquire through the authorized, officer for further details or facts; | ||
+ | (d) Hear the State Public Information Officer or the State Assistant Public Information Officer or such officer who decided the first appeal mentioned in sub-section (I) of Section 19, as the case may be; | ||
+ | (e) Hear the third party if required; and | ||
+ | (f) | ||
+ | Receive evidence on " | ||
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+ | (2) In deciding the appeal the Commission may ask the appellant to add any other information other than the information included in the contents of the second appeal under rule 5. | ||
+ | ** 8. Service of notice by Commission-** | ||
+ | The notice required to be issued under sub-section (9) of Section 19, by the Commission may be served in any of the following modes, namely:- | ||
+ | (a) | ||
+ | (b) | ||
+ | (c) | ||
+ | (d) | ||
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+ | **9. Signing of order -** | ||
+ | The order of the Commission pronounced in open proceedings shall be in writing and authenticated by the Registrar of any other officer authorized by the Commission in this behalf. | ||
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+ | **10. Terms and conditions of officers and other employees of Commission -** | ||
+ | The officers and other employees of the Commission shall be placed on deputation from the State Government on the usual terms and conditions | ||
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+ | By order of the Governor, | ||
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+ | Sd/- Trilochon Singh, | ||
+ | Pr. Secretary to the Govt. of West Bengal | ||
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