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PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 1973 - SECT 9 Personal or private records may be withheld

PUBLIC RECORDS ACT 1973 - SECT 9

Personal or private records may be withheld

S. 9(1) amended by No. 29/1994 s. 80.

    (1)     Where the Minister is of opinion that any records required by this Act to be transferred from a public office to the Public Record Office contain matters of such a private or personal nature that they should not be open for public inspection he may, after consultation with the Minister responsible for the administration of the public office concerned, declare those records to be private or personal records and not available for public inspection for a period specified in the declaration.

    (2)     The Minister, after consultation with the Minister responsible for the administration of the public office from which any such private or personal records were transferred, or if the case so requires, of the public office at the time exercising the functions to which the records relate, may—

        (a)     revoke or vary any declaration under subsection (1) in respect of those records; or

        (b)     permit, on any conditions or restrictions specified, all or any of those records to be open for inspection by any specified person or class of persons.

S. 10 substituted by No. 29/1994 s. 81.