Right to Information Act, 2005
Bare Act · 2005
An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority, the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
In the syllabus of: Andhra Pradesh APO · CG APO · Kerala APO · MP APO · Rajasthan Protection Officer · RIICO JLO · Telangana APO · UGC NET Law · UPSC Law Optional
- Act number
- 22 of 2005
- Enacted
- 15 June 2005
- Contents
- 31 sections · 6 chapters
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Contents
Chapter I — Preliminary
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 (preview)
- Section 7 – Disposal of request (preview)
- Section 8 – Exemption from disclosure of information (preview)
- Section 9 – Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases (preview)
- Section 10 – Severability (preview)
- Section 11 – Third party information (preview)
Chapter III — The Central Information Commission
- Section 12 – Constitution of Central Information Commission (preview)
- Section 13 – Terms of office and conditions of service (preview)
- Section 14 – Removal of Chief Information Commissioner or Information Commissioner (preview)
Chapter IV — The State Information Commission
- Section 15 – Constitution of State Information Commission (preview)
- Section 16 – Term of office and conditions of service (preview)
- Section 17 – Removal of State Chief Information Commissioner or State Information Commissioner (preview)
Chapter V — Powers And Functions Of The Information Commissions, Appeal And Penalties
- Section 18 – Powers and functions of Information Commissions (preview)
- Section 19 – Appeal (preview)
- Section 20 – Penalties (preview)
Chapter VI — Miscellaneous
- Section 21 – Protection of action taken in good faith (preview)
- Section 22 – Act to have overriding effect (preview)
- Section 23 – Bar of jurisdiction of courts (preview)
- Section 24 – Act not to apply to certain organisations (preview)
- Section 25 – Monitoring and reporting (preview)
- Section 26 – Appropriate Government to prepare programmes (preview)
- Section 27 – Power to make rules by appropriate Government (preview)
- Section 28 – Power to make rules by competent authority (preview)
- Section 29 – Laying of rules (preview)
- Section 30 – Power to remove difficulties (preview)
- Section 31 – Repeal THE FIRST SCHEDULE. THE SECOND SCHEDULE. THE RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT, 2005 (preview)