GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

CHIEF SECRETARIAT

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS WING

(G.O. Ms. No. 1/2015/A2/ARW, dated 1st April 2015)

NOTIFICATION

In exercise of the powers conferred under section 28 of the Right to

Information Act, 2005 (Central Act 22 of 2005), the Lieutenant-Governor,

Puducherry hereby makes the following rules further to amend the

Puducherry Right to Information Rules, 2006 issued in the notification

No. B.16013/2005/SCIC(RTI), dated 29-5-2006 of the Administrative

Reforms Wing, Chief Secretariat, Government of Puducherry and published

in the Part-I of the Extraordinary Gazette of Puducherry No. 85,

dated 7th June 2006, namely:—

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1. Short title and commencement.— (1) These rules may be called

the Puducherry Right to Information (Amendment) Rules, 2015.

(2) They shall come into force on and from the date of their

publication in the official gazette.

2. Amendment of rule 3.— In the Puducherry Right to Information

Rules, 2006 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 3, above the

proviso clause, the following shall be added, namely:—

“The application submitted by an applicant, in Form-I, for

seeking information, shall ordinarily not contain more than five

hundred words, excluding annexures, containing address of the

Public Information Officer and that of the applicant:

Provided that no application shall be rejected only on the ground

that it contains more than five hundred words.”.

3. Amendment of rule 7.— In the said rules, in sub-rule (1) of rule 7,

in clause (B), after sub-clause (d), the following new sub-clauses shall

be added, namely:—

“(e) So much of postal charges involved in supply of information

that exceeds fifty rupees.

(f) (i) ` 20 (Rupees twenty only) per Compact Disc (CD);

(ii) ` 50 (Rupees fifty only) per Digital Versatile Disc (DVD);

(g) Price fixed for a publication or rupees two per page of

photocopy for extract from the publication;”

(By order of the Lieutenant-Governor)

B. PRABAGARAN,

Under Secretary to Government (ARW).

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