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[AS AMENDED IN PUBLIC BILL
COMMITTEE] |
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amend
the Freedom of Information Act 2000 to exempt from its provisions
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the House of Commons and House
of Lords and correspondence between |
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Members of Parliament and
public authorities. |
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Be
it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty,
by and with the advice and |
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consent of the Lords Spiritual
and Temporal, and Commons, in this present |
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Parliament assembled, and
by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
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Exemption
of House of Commons and House of Lords |
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(1) |
The Freedom
of Information Act 2000 (c. 36) is amended as follows. |
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(2) |
In Part 1 of Schedule 1
(public authorities) omit paragraphs 2 and 3 (which |
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relate to the House of Commons
and the House of Lords). |
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(3) |
After section 34 insert— |
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“34A |
Communications
with members of House of Commons |
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(1) |
Information is exempt information
if it is held only by virtue of being |
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contained
in any communication between a member of the House of |
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Commons,
acting in his capacity as such, and a public authority. |
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(2) |
The duty to confirm or
deny does not arise in relation to information |
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which
is (or if it were held by the public authority to which the request
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is
made would be) exempt information by virtue of subsection (1).” |
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(4) |
In section 63 (removal of
exemptions: historical records generally), in |
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subsection (1), after “33,”
insert “34A,”. |
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(b) |
section 36(5)(d) and (e) and
(7), and |
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(c) |
in section 81(4), the words
“on behalf of either House of Parliament or”. |
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Short
title, commencement and extent |
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(1) |
This Act may be cited as
the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Act 2007. |
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(2) |
This Act comes into force
at the end of a period of two months beginning with |
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the day on which it is passed. |
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(3) |
This Act does not apply
in relation to any request for information which is |
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made to a public authority
before the Act comes into force. |
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(4) |
In subsection (3) “request
for information” and “public authority” have
the |
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same meaning as in the Freedom
of Information Act 2000. |
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(5) |
This Act extends to Northern
Ireland. |
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