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Bare Act · 31 sections

Right to Information Act, 2005 (RTI)

Chapter I — Preliminary

  1. 1. Short title, extent and commencement
  2. 2. Definitions

Chapter II — Right to Information and Obligations of Public Authorities

  1. 3. Right to information
  2. 4. Obligations of public authorities
  3. 5. Designation of Public Information Officers
  4. 6. Request for obtaining information
  5. 7. Disposal of request
  6. 8. Exemption from disclosure of information
  7. 9. Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases
  8. 10. Severability
  9. 11. Third party information

Chapter III — The Central Information Commission

  1. 12. Constitution of Central Information Commission
  2. 13. Term of office and conditions of service
  3. 14. Removal of Chief Information Commissioner or Information Commissioner

Chapter IV — The State Information Commission

  1. 15. Constitution of State Information Commission
  2. 16. Term of office and conditions of service
  3. 17. Removal of State Chief Information Commissioner or State Information Commissioner

Chapter V — Powers and Functions of the Information Commissions, Appeal and Penalties

  1. 18. Powers and functions of Information Commissions
  2. 19. Appeal
  3. 20. Penalties

Chapter VI — Miscellaneous

  1. 21. Protection of action taken in good faith
  2. 22. Act to have overriding effect
  3. 23. Bar of jurisdiction of courts
  4. 24. Act not to apply to certain organisations
  5. 25. Monitoring and reporting
  6. 26. Appropriate Government to prepare programmes
  7. 27. Power to make rules by appropriate Government
  8. 28. Power to make rules by competent authority
  9. 29. Laying of rules
  10. 30. Power to remove difficulties
  11. 31. Repeal

Source: official text.