and Review Regulations, 2010

L.N. 159 of 2010

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT

(CAP. 496)

Timeframes for Lodging Complaints and Requests for Investigation

and Review Regulations, 2010

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 42(d) of the

Freedom of Information Act, the Minister for Justice and Home

Affairs has made the following regulations:-

(1)

The title of these regulations is Timeframes for

lodging complaints and requests for investigation and review

Regulations, 2010.

(2) These regulations shall come into force on the 21st April,

2010.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires:-

"the Act" means the Freedom of Information Act, and words

and expressions which are also used in the Act shall in these

regulations have the same meaning assigned to them in the Act.

An applicant who considers that a public authority did not

meet the requirements set out in the Act in respect of his request in

terms of the Act may address a complaint to that public authority

within a maximum of thirty days from the date of the last relative

communication from the public authority or the act or omission

giving rise to the complaint, whichever is the later date.

Complaints or requests for investigation and review

addressed to the Commissioner in terms of the Act shall be lodged by

the applicant within a maximum of sixty days from the receipt of the

final communication from the public authority concerned.

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