28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly:
The amendment seeks to provide for the designation of one of the commissioners as an “Access to Information Commissioner” to oversee the enforcement of the provisions of the Bill once enacted into law. As it is now, the commissioners have many functions, but as they get the new duty on the access to information law, they designate one of their members to be in charge of access to information matters. This has a precedent in many other countries. The Government amendments, which will come in the Data Protection Bill that we are still waiting for, were to create an information ...
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28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move:- THAT, the following new clause be inserted immediately after clause 10— The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly:
Methods of 10A. (1) Access to information may be given to a requester in providing access one or more of the following forms— to information
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28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly:
(a) a reasonable opportunity to inspect the original record containing the information; (b) a copy of the record containing information, edited if necessary; (c) in the case of a record that is an article or thing from which sounds or visual images are capable of being reproduced, the making of arrangements for the requester to hear those sounds or view the images; (d) in the case of information by which words are recorded in a manner in which they are capable of being reproduced in the form of sound or in which words are contained in the form of shorthand ...
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28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, New Clause 10A seeks to give the methods through which access to information may be provided. It is one thing to say access to information and another thing to guide what that access entails. This is what the clause says.
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28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the main intention of this new clause is to give the methods of providing access to information and the detail of what those methods can be. In our jurisdiction, it has not been very easy to get electronic records and to put them into our jurisprudence in terms of the documentation that we could receive. This clause goes into a lot of details on the methods of providing access to information.
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28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly:
I beg Hon. Members to accept this clause.
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28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman it is, indeed, true that Clause 11(3) covers aspects of New Clause 10A. However, New Clause 10A covers what to do with persons living with disabilities. It is an improvement of Clause 11(3). There are more details in New Clause 10A as opposed to what we have in Clause 11(3).
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28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly:
Yes, I am convinced, especially remembering that the devil resides in the detail. I am convinced that we stay with Clause 11(3). What we were doing is just extrapolating. That extrapolation can be done in the regulations. I beg to withdraw my amendment.
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