law: The Right to Information Act, 2005
  CHAPTER VI
  Miscellaneous
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    No
  
  suit, prosecution or other legal proceeding shall lie against any person for
  
  anything which is in good faith done or intended to be done under this Act or
  
  any rule made thereunder.
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    The
  
  provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent
  
  therewith contained in the Official Secrets Act, 1923, and any other law for
  
  the time being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any law
  
  other than this Act.
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    No
  
  court shall entertain any suit, application or other proceeding in respect of
  
  any order made under this Act and no such order shall be called in question
  
  otherwise than by way of an appeal under this Act.
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  1.   Nothing contained in
  
  this Act shall apply to the intelligence and security organisations specified
  
  in the Second Schedule, being organisations established by the Central
  
  Government or any information furnished by such organisations to that
  
  Government:    
  that the
  
  information pertaining to the allegations of corruption and human rights
  
  violations shall not be excluded under this sub-section:
       
  
  
  
  Provided further that in the case of information sought for is in respect of
  
  allegations of violation of human rights, the information shall only be
  
  provided after the approval of the Central Information Commission, and
  
  notwithstanding anything contained in section 7, such information shall be
  
  provided within forty-five days from the date of the receipt of request.  
  
  
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  2.   The Central Government
  
  may, by notification in the Official Gazette, amend the Schedule by including
  
  therein any other intelligence or security organisation established by that
  
  Government or omitting there from any organisation already specified therein
  
  and on the publication of such notification, such organisation shall be deemed
  
  to be included in or, as the case may be, omitted from the Schedule.
  3.   Every notification
  
  issued under sub-section (2) shall be laid before each House of Parliament.
  
  
  
   
  4.   Nothing contained in
  
  this Act shall apply to such intelligence and security organisation being
  
  organisations established by the State Government, as that Government may, from
  
  time to time, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify:    
  
   
  that the
  
  information pertaining to the allegations of corruption and human rights
  
  violations shall not be excluded under this sub-section:    
  Provided further that
  
  in the case of information sought for is in respect of allegations of violation
  
  of human rights, the information shall only be provided after the approval of
  
  the State Information Commission and, notwithstanding anything contained in
  
  section 7, such information shall be provided within forty-five days from the
  
  date of the receipt of request.
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  5.   Every notification
  
  issued under sub-section (4) shall be laid before the State Legislature.
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  1.   The Central
  
  Information Commission or State Information Commission, as the case may be,
  
  shall, as soon as practicable after the end of each year, prepare a report on
  
  the implementation of the provisions of this Act during that year and forward a
  
  copy thereof to the appropriate Government.
  2.   Each Ministry or
  
  Department shall, in relation to the public authorities within their
  
  jurisdiction, collect and provide such information to the Central Information
  
  Commission or State Information Commission, as the case may be, as is required
  
  to prepare the report under this section and comply with the requirements
  
  concerning the furnishing of that information and keeping of records for the
  
  purposes of this section.
  3.   Each report shall
  
  state in respect of the year to which the report relates,-
  a.   the number of
  
  requests made to each public authority;  
  b.   the number of
  
  decisions where applicants were not entitled to access to the documents
  
  pursuant to the requests, the provisions of this Act under which these
  
  decisions were made and the number of times such provisions were invoked;
  
   
  c.   the number of appeals
  
  referred to the Central Information Commission or State Information Commission,
  
  as the case may be, for review, the nature of the appeals and the outcome of
  
  the appeals;
  d.   particulars of any
  
  disciplinary action taken against any officer in respect of the administration
  
  of this Act;  
  e.   the amount of charges
  
  collected by each public authority under this Act;
  f.   any facts which
  
  indicate an effort by the public authorities to administer and implement the
  
  spirit and intention of this Act;  
  g.   recommendations for
  
  reform, including recommendations in respect of the particular public authorities,
  
  for the development, improvement, modernisation, reform or amendment to this
  
  Act or other legislation or common law or any other matter relevant for
  
  operationalising the right to access information.
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  4.   The Central
  
  Government or the State Government, as the case may be, may, as soon as
  
  practicable after the end of each year, cause a copy of the report of the
  
  Central Information Commission or the State Information Commission, as the case
  
  may be, referred to in sub-section (1) to be laid before each House of
  
  Parliament or, as the case may be, before each House of the State Legislature,
  
  where there are two Houses, and where there is one House of the State
  
  Legislature before that House.
  5.   If it appears to the
  
  Central Information Commission or State Information Commission, as the case may
  
  be, that the practice of a public authority in relation to the exercise of its
  
  functions under this Act does not conform with the provisions or spirit of this
  
  Act, it may give to the authority a recommendation specifying the steps which
  
  ought in its opinion to be taken for promoting such conformity.