Personal or private records may be withheld
9 Personal or private records may be withheld
S. 9(1) amended by Nos 29/1994 s. 80, 17/2024 s. 23(4).
Where the Minister is of opinion that any records required by this Act to be transferred from a public office to the Public Record Office contain matters of such a private or personal nature that they should not be open for public inspection the Minister may, after consultation with the Minister responsible for the administration of the public office concerned, declare those records to be private or personal records and not available for public inspection for a period specified in the declaration.
The Minister, after consultation with the Minister responsible for the administration of the public office from which any such private or personal records were transferred, or if the case so requires, of the public office at the time exercising the functions to which the records relate, may—
revoke or vary any declaration under subsection (1) in respect of those records; or
permit, on any conditions or restrictions specified, all or any of those records to be open for inspection by any specified person or class of persons.
S. 9(3) inserted by No. 45/2025 s. 292.
This section does not apply to any records required to be transferred to the Public Record Office from the public office that is Gellung Warl.
S. 9A inserted by No. 45/2025 s. 293.
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