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The Right To Information Act - 2005
  

 

Regulation of Fee and Cost


TO BE PUBLISHED IN PART-II, SECTION. 3, SUB-SECTION (i) OF THE GAZETTE OF INDIA

Government of India,
Ministry of Personal, Public Grievances and Pensions

( Department of Personal and Training )
 


New Delhi, the 16th September, 2005.
N O T I F I C A T I O N

G.S.R....., In excercise of the powers conferred by clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section (2) of section 27 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 ( 22 of 2005), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely :-
1.
Short title and commencement -

 
(1)
 These rules may be called the Right to Information ( Regulation of Fee and Cost ) Rules, 2005.
 
(2)
 They shall come into force on the date of their publicaion in the Official Gazette.

2.
Defination - In the rules, unless the context otherwise requires, -

 
(a)
 'Act' means the Right to Information Act, 2005;
 
(b)
 'section' means section of the Act;
 
(c)
 all other words and expression used herein but not defined and defined in the Act shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Act.

3.
A request for obtaining information under sub-section (1) of section 6 shall be accompanied by an application fee of rupees ten by way of cash against proper receipt or by deman dfraft or bankers cheque payble to the Accounts Officer of the public authority.
   
4. For providing the information under sub-section (1) of section 7, the fee shall be charged by way of cash against proper receipt or by deman dfraft or bankers cheque payble to the Accounts Officer of the public authority at following rates:-
   
 
(a)
 rupees two for each page ( in A-4 or A-3 size paper) created or copied;
 
(b)
 actual charge or cost price of a copy in large size paper;

 
(c)
 actual cost or price for samples or models; and

 
(d)
 for inspection of records, no fee for the first hour; and a fee or rupees five for each fifteen minutes ( or fraction thereof) thereafter.
   
5. For providing the information under sub-section (5) of section 7, the fee shall be charged by way of cash against proper receipt or by deman dfraft or bankers cheque payble to the Accounts Officer of the public authority at following rates:-
   
 
(a)
 for information provided in diskette or floppy rupees fifty per diskette or floppy; and

 
(b)
 for information provided in printed form at the price fixed for such publication or rupees two per page of photocopy for extracts from the publicaion.
   
 
Sd/-
Hari Kumar
Director
   
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