Information Act 2018 (Act No. 9 of 2018).

The objectives of this Act are to (a) give effect to the right of access to information under sections 25 and 150 of the Constitution; (b) recognise the right of a person to access information held by a public agency in accordance with the procedures prescribed in this Act; (c) ensure that a person is informed of the operations of a public agency, including, in particular, the rules and practices followed by the public agency in its dealings with members of the public; and (d) allow a person to make a request to correct or delete personal information held by a public agency in respect of the person to ensure that the information is correct, accurate, complete and not misleading. This Act sets forth provisions on (i) right of and request for access to information, and determination, acceptance, and refusal of request by the Commission, (ii) duties of public agency to provide assistance and information, requests for personal information, and storage of information electronically, (iii) exemption from disclosure of information, (iv) failure to provide access and duty of the Commission to facilitate access to information, and (v) application and appeal to the High Court against the Commission in Part 2; request for and determination, acceptance, and refusal of correction or deletion of personal information in Part 3; duties of the Public agencies to make information publicly available in Part 4; duties and authorities of the Accountability and Transparency Commission in Part 5; and offences and penalties in Part 6. The Minister may, in consultation with the Commission, make regulations prescribing matters that are required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act and generally for achieving the purposes of this Act.