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Right to Information Act - RTI

List of Chapters

• Chapter I - Preliminary

  • Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement.

  • Section 2 - Definitions.

• Chapter II - Right to information and obligations of public authorities

  • Section 3 - Right to information

  • Section 4 - Obligations of public authorities.

  • Section 5 - Designation of Public Information Officers.

  • Section 6 - Request for obtaining information.

  • Section 7 - Disposal of request.

  • Section 8 - Exemption from disclosure of information.

  • Section 9 - Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases.

  • Section 10 - Severability.

  • Section 11 - Third party information.

• Chapter III - THE CENTRAL INFORMATION COMMISSION

  • Section 12 - Constitution of Central Information Commission.

  • Section 13 - Terms of office and conditions of service.

  • Section 14 - Removal of Chief Information Commissioner or Information Commissioner.

• Chapter IV - THE STATE INFORMATION COMMISSION

  • Section 15 - Constitution of State Information Commission.

  • Section 16 - Term of office and conditions of service.

  • Section 17 - Removal of State Chief Information Commissioner or State Information Commissioner.

• Chapter V - POWERS AND FUNCTIONS OF THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONS, APPEAL AND PENALTIES

  • Section 18 - Powers and functions of Information Commissions.

  • Section 19 - Appeal

  • Section 20 - Penalties.

• Chapter VI - MISCELLANEOUS

  • Section 21 - Protection of action taken in good faith.

  • Section 22 - Act to have overriding effect.

  • Section 23 - Bar of jurisdiction of courts.

  • Section 24 - Act not to apply to certain organisations.

  • Section 25 - Monitoring and reporting.

  • Section 26 - Appropriate Government to prepare programmes.

  • Section 27 - Power to make rules by appropriate Government.

  • Section 28 - Power to make rules by competent authority.

  • Section 29 - Laying of rules.

  • Section 30 - Power to remove difficulties.

  • Section 31 - Repeal

• THE FIRST SCHEDULE

• THE SECOND SCHEDULE