FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 28 Cabinet documents
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 28
Cabinet documents(1) A document is an exempt document if it is—
(a) the official record of any deliberation or decision of the Cabinet;
S. 28(1)(b) substituted by Nos 58/1993 s. 12(1), 57/1999 s. 5.
(b) a document that has been prepared by a Minister or on his or her behalf or by an agency for the purpose of submission for consideration by the Cabinet;
S. 28(1)(ba) inserted by No. 58/1993 s. 12(1).
(ba) a document prepared for the purpose of briefing a Minister in relation to issues to be considered by the Cabinet;
S. 28(1)(c) substituted by No. 58/1993 s. 12(1).
(c) a document that is a copy or draft of, or contains extracts from, a document referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (ba); or
(d) a document the disclosure of which would involve the disclosure of any deliberation or decision of the Cabinet, other than a document by which a decision of the Cabinet was officially published.
(2) Subsection (1) shall cease to apply to a document brought into existence after the day of commencement of this section when a period of ten years has elapsed since the last day of the year in which the document came into existence.
S. 28(3) substituted by No. 58/1993 s. 12(2).
(3) Subsection (1) does not apply to a document referred to in a paragraph of that subsection to the extent that the document contains purely statistical, technical or scientific material unless the disclosure of the document would involve the disclosure of any deliberation or decision of the Cabinet.
S. 28(4) substituted by No. 58/1993 s. 12(2), amended by No. 30/2006 s. 22(1), repealed by No. 20/2017 s. 11.
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S. 28(5) substituted by No. 58/1993 s. 12(2), amended by No. 6/2012 s. 11(1), repealed by No. 20/2017 s. 11.
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S. 28(6) inserted by No. 58/1993 s. 12(2), repealed by No. 20/2017 s. 11.
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S. 28(7) inserted by No. 58/1993 s. 12(2).
(7) In this section—
(a) Cabinet includes a committee or sub–committee of Cabinet;
(b) a reference to a document includes a reference to a document whether created before or after the commencement of section 12 of the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 1993 .
S. 29 amended by No. 20/2017 s. 12 (ILA s. 39B(1)).