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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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