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Section 21, The Right to Access Information Act, 2013

Status not yet checkedThe Right to Access Information Act, 2013, Sierra Leone

(1) The duty to disclose information shall not apply if, orto the extent that, compliance with section 2 would involve the unreasonable disclosure of personal information concerning an individual. (2) For the purposes of this section disclosure is not unreasonable if– (a) the individual to whom the information relates gives prior consent; (b) the disclosure is required to promote public health or public safety; (c) the disclosure is necessary in order to subject public authorities and private bodies to public scrutiny; (d) the disclosure is made to the individual to whom the information relates; (e) the disclosure can reasonably be expected not to have an adverse effect on the affairs of any person or prejudice the future supply of the information; (f) the information is already available to the public; (g) the individual to whom the information relates was informed or made aware prior to supplying the information that the information belongs to a class of information that will or might be made available to the public; (h) in the case of a deceased person, the applicant is the next-of-kin or represents the next-of-kin of the deceased; (i) the third party has been deceased for more than twenty years.

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