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The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act establishes a number of important new legal rights for those seeking access to official information.
New statutory rights under the Freedom of Information Act:
- A legal right for each person to access information held by public bodies.
- A legal right for each person to have official information relating to him/herself amended where it is incomplete, incorrect or misleading.
- A legal right to obtain reasons for decisions effecting oneself.
The Act gives right of access (subject to exemptions) to:
- all records created after commencement of this Act i.e. 21st October 1998
- such records created before that date as may be required to understand records created after commencement of the Act.
- personal records regardless of when created.
- In the case of staff members, personnel records created from a date 3 years before commencement of the Act.
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