26th September 2022 12:59:20 PM
1 min readParliament has passed the law spelling out the various fees to be paid by persons seeking Information under the Right to Information law.
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This is the Fees and Charges (Miscellaneous provisions Act 2022 (ACT 1080). Persons seeking Information are to pay 0.27 pesewas for every photocopy of A4 size of information.
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Section 75 of the Right to Information Act, 2019, (ACT 989) requires applicants to pay the fee approved by Parliament.
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“An applicant seeking access to information under this Act shall pay the fee or charge approved by Parliament in accordance with the Fees and Charges (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act,2009 (Act 793).”
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The Right to Information Commission in accordance with this law submitted a proposal to Parliament spelling out how much should be charged.
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Even before this could be passed, applicants seeking information were in some instances asked to pay amounts considered to be problematic.
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The Fourth Estate’s Evans Aziamor Mensah was asked by the Minerals Commission to pay $1,000 to access Information.
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This amount was later set aside by the Right to Information Commission as being unreasonable. The matter is currently pending at the Court of Appeal.
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Speaking on The Law on the Joynews Channel, Executive Secretary of the RTI Commission, Yaw Sarpong Boateng, said the new fees approved by Parliament will provide clarity on the matter.
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“It sits with our argument that the fees ought to be reasonable in respect of the reproduction not for the cost of generating the Information.”
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Source: Myjoyonline.com
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