The RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005

PRELIMINARY

Section 1 — Short title, extent and commencement.

(1) This Act may be called the Right to Information Act, 2005.

(2) It extends to the whole of India [Omitted] .

(3) The provisions of sub-section (1) of section 4, sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 5, sections 12, 13, 15,16, 24, 27 and 28 shall come into force at once, and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on the one hundred and twentieth day of its enactment.

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  1. 1.Short title, extent and commencement.
  2. 2.Definitions.
  3. 3.Right to information.
  4. 4.Obligations of public authorities.
  5. 5.Designation of Public Information Officers.
  6. 6.Request for obtaining information.
  7. 7.Disposal of request.
  8. 8.Exemption from disclosure of information.
  9. 9.Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases.
  10. 10.Severability.
  11. 11.Third party information.
  12. 12.Constitution of Central Information Commission.
  13. 13.Terms of office and conditions of service.
  14. 14.Removal of Chief Information Commissioner or Information Commissioner.
  15. 15.Constitution of State Information Commission.
  16. 16.Term of office and conditions of service.
  17. 17.Removal of State Chief Information Commissioner or State Information Commissioner.
  18. 18.Powers and functions of Information Commissions.
  19. 19.Appeal.
  20. 20.Penalties.
  21. 21.Protection of action taken in good faith.
  22. 22.Act to have overriding effect.
  23. 23.Bar of jurisdiction of courts.
  24. 24.Act not to apply to certain organisations.
  25. 25.Monitoring and reporting.
  26. 26.Appropriate Government to prepare programmes.
  27. 27.Power to make rules by appropriate Government.
  28. 28.Power to make rules by competent authority.
  29. 29.Laying of rules.
  30. 30.Power to remove difficulties.
  31. 31.Repeal.
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