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UK Freedom of Information Act Comes Into Force

Posted by michael on from the only-as-good-as-the-enforcement dept.

norfolkboy writes "The UK Freedom of Information Act comes into force today, 1st January 2005. Under the new law, passed by Parliament in 2000, all citizens will have information to any non-exempt information from ANY English, Scottish, or Welsh public sector authority or institution, and the information must be presented within twenty days."

3 of 42 comments (clear)

  1. UK.gov shredding frenzy by skinfitz · · Score: 5, Informative

    The UK Government (lovely honest people that they are) have been having a paper shredding and email deletion frenzy ahead of this law coming into force.

    Of course it's just a coincidence - they just thought they would clean up all the old records by destroying lots of them. Nothing to see here, move along.

  2. Offentlighetsprincipen by LeftOfCentre · · Score: 3, Informative

    Some countries have had a powerful, constitutional freedom of information act since 1766.

  3. BBC iCan page has plenty of information by Andy_R · · Score: 3, Informative

    The BBC has an recently launched an interesting new area of it's website devoted to public involvement in politics, called iCan. As you might expect, it contains an excellent plain english guide to what you can and can't get information on, and how to go about it here

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