law: The Right to Information Act, 2005
  Every public
  
  authority shall, within one hundred days of the enactment of this Act
  1.   Every public
  
  authority shall, within one hundred days of the enactment of this Act,
  
  designate as many officers as the Central Public Information Officers or State
  
  Public Information Officers, as the case may be, in all administrative units or
  
  offices under it as may be necessary to provide information to persons
  
  requesting for the information under this Act.  
  2.   Without prejudice to
  
  the provisions of sub-section (1), every public authority shall designate an
  
  officer, within one hundred days of the enactment of this Act, at each
  
  sub-divisional level or other sub-district level as a Central Assistant Public
  
  Information Officer or a State Assistant Public Information Officer, as the
  
  case may be, to receive the applications for information or appeals under this
  
  Act for forwarding the same forthwith to the Central Public Information Officer
  
  or the State Public Information Officer or senior officer specified under
  
  sub-section (1) of section 19 or the Central Information Commission or the
  
  State Information Commission, as the case may be:
  that where
  
  an application for information or appeal is given to a Central Assistant Public
  
  Information Officer or a State Assistant Public Information Officer, as the
  
  case may be, a period of five days shall be added in computing the period for
  
  response specified under sub-section (1) of section 7.
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  3.   Every Central Public
  
  Information Officer or State Public Information Officer, as the case may be,
  
  shall deal with requests from persons seeking information and render reasonable
  
  assistance to the persons seeking such information.
  4.   The Central Public
  
  Information Officer or State Public Information Officer, as the case may be,
  
  may seek the assistance of any other officer as he or she considers it
  
  necessary for the proper discharge of his or her duties.
  5.   Any officer, whose
  
  assistance has been sought under sub-section (4), shall render all assistance
  
  to the Central Public Information Officer or State Public Information Officer,
  
  as the case may be, seeking his or her assistance and for the purposes of any
  
  contravention of the provisions of this Act, such other officer shall be
  
  treated as a Central Public Information Officer or State Public Information
  
  Officer, as the case may be.