Timely intimation about payment of additional fee under RTI Act 2005
F.No.12/31/2013-IR
Government of India
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
Department of Personnel & Training
North Block, New Delhi – 110001
Dated: 11.2.2013
OFFICE MEMORANDUM
Subject: Timely intimation about payment of additional fee under RTI Act 2005.
It
has been brought to the notice of the Central Information Commission
that some CPIOs inform the information seeker about the additional fee
under sub section 7(3) of the RTI Act at the fag end of the thirty days
period prescribed for providing the information under sub-section 7(1)
of the RTI Act.
2. The Central
Information Commission in one of its orders has mentioned that while
there cannot be any hard and fast rule about when exactly the intimation
about the photocopying charges should be conveyed to the information
seeker, it is implied in the prescribed time limit that the demand for
the photocopying charges must be made soon after the RTI application is
received so that the information seeker has time to deposit the fees and
receive the information within the prescribed thirty days period. If
the information sought is not voluminous or is not dispersed over o
large number of files, computation of the photocopying charges should
not be a time consuming task. As soon as the RTI application is
received, the holder of the information should decide about how much
information to disclose and then calculate the photocopying charges so
that the CPIO can immediately write to the information seeker demanding
such fees.
3. This may be brought to the notice of all concerned for compliance.
sd/-
(Sandeep Jain)
Deputy Secretary
Source: www.persmin.nic.in
[http://ccis.nic.in/WriteReadData/CircularPortal/D2/D02rti/12_31_2013-IR-11022013.pdf]
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