FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 67 Retrospective operation of law
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 1982 - SECT 67
Retrospective operation of law(1) An applicant for access to records about himself, within the meaning of section 33, shall be entitled to receive access subject to this Act to any such record notwithstanding that the record came into existence at any time prior to the date of commencement of this section.
(2) An applicant for access to a document other than those referred to in subsection (1) shall be entitled to receive access, subject to this Act, to any such document provided that it came into existence not more than five years prior to the date of commencement of this section.
S. 67(3) substituted by No. 97/1993 s. 44(c).
(3) A Minister shall in his or her report under section 64 include advice regarding the practicability of extending the period of retrospective access provided under subsection (2) of this section.
S. 67(4) inserted by No. 58/1993 s. 25.
(4) Subsections (1) and (2) apply in relation to access to a document of an agency that is a council as if a reference to the date of commencement of this section were a reference to the date of commencement of section 25 of the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 1993 .
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inserted by No. 57/1999 s. 10.