law: The Right to Information Act, 2005
  The appropriate
  
  Government may, to the extent of availability of financial and other resources
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  Government may, to the extent of availability of financial and other
  
  resources,-
  a.   develop and organise
  
  educational programmes to advance the understanding of the public, in
  
  particular of disadvantaged communities as to how to exercise the rights
  
  contemplated under this Act;
  b.   encourage public
  
  authorities to participate in the development and organisation of programmes
  
  referred to in clause (a) and to undertake such programmes themselves;  
  
   
  c.   promote timely and
  
  effective dissemination of accurate information by public authorities about
  
  their activities; and    
  d.   train Central Public
  
  Information Officers or State Public Information Officers, as the case may be,
  
  of public authorities and produce relevant training materials for use by the
  
  public authorities themselves.
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  2.   The appropriate
  
  Government shall, within eighteen months from the commencement of this Act,
  
  compile in its official language a guide containing such information, in an
  
  easily comprehensible form and manner, as may reasonably be required by a
  
  person who wishes to exercise any right specified in this Act.  
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  Government shall, if necessary, update and publish the guidelines referred to
  
  in sub-section (2) at regular intervals which shall, in particular and without
  
  prejudice to the generality of sub-section (2), include-    
  a.   the objects of this
  
  Act;
  b.   the postal and street
  
  address, the phone and fax number and, if available, electronic mail address of
  
  the Central Public Information Officer or State Public Information Officer, as
  
  the case may be, of every public authority appointed under sub-section (1) of
  
  section 5;    
  c.   the manner and the
  
  form in which request for access to an information shall be made to a Central
  
  Public Information Officer or State Public Information Officer, as the case may
  
  be;    
  d.   the assistance
  
  available from and the duties of the Central Public Information Officer or
  
  State Public Information Officer, as the case may be, of a public authority
  
  under this Act;    
  e.   the assistance
  
  available from the Central Information Commission or State Information
  
  Commission, as the case may be;
  f.   all remedies in law
  
  available regarding an act or failure to act in respect of a right or duty
  
  conferred or imposed by this Act including the manner of filing an appeal to
  
  the Commission;    
  g.   the provisions
  
  providing for the voluntary disclosure of categories of records in accordance
  
  with section 4;    
  h.   the notices regarding
  
  fees to be paid in relation to requests for access to an information; and
  
  
  
     
  i.   any additional
  
  regulations or circulars made or issued in relation to obtaining access to an
  
  information in accordance with this Act.
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  Government must, if necessary, update and publish the guidelines at regular
  
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  Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry
  
  out the provisions of this Act.  
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  without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may
  
  provide for all or any of the following matters, namely:-
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  medium or print cost price of the materials to be disseminated under
  
  sub-section (4) of section 4;    
  b.   the fee payable under
  
  sub-section (1) of section 6;    
  c.   the fee payable under
  
  sub-sections (1) and (5) of section 7;    
  d.   the salaries and
  
  allowances payable to and the terms and conditions of service of the officers
  
  and other employees under sub-section (6) of section 13 and sub-section (6) of
  
  section 16;
  e.   the procedure to be
  
  adopted by the Central Information Commission or State Information Commission,
  
  as the case may be, in deciding the appeals under sub-section (10) of section
  
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  authority may, by notification in the Official Gazette, make rules to carry out
  
  the provisions of this Act.
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  without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power, such rules may
  
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    the
  
  cost of the medium or print cost price of the materials to be disseminated
  
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    the
  
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    the
  
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  1.   Every rule made by
  
  the Central Government under this Act shall be laid, as soon as may be after it
  
  is made, before each House of Parliament, while it is in session, for a total period
  
  of thirty days which may be comprised in one session or in two or more
  
  successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately
  
  following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid, both Houses agree
  
  in making any modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule
  
  should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified
  
  form or be of no effect, as the case may be; so, however, that any such
  
  modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of
  
  anything previously done under that rule.
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  this Act by a State Government shall be laid, as soon as may be after it is
  
  notified, before the State Legislature.
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  1.   If any difficulty
  
  arises in giving effect to the provisions of this Act, the Central Government
  
  may, by order published in the Official Gazette, make such provisions not
  
  inconsistent with the provisions of this Act as appear to it to be necessary or
  
  expedient for removal of the difficulty:
  
  
  that no such order shall be made after the expiry of a period of two
  
  years from the date of the commencement of this Act.  
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  under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be laid before
  
  each House of Parliament.
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  The Freedom of
  
  Information Act, 2002 is hereby repealed.