Government and information : the law relating to access, disclosure and regulation

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Government and information : the law relating to access, disclosure and regulation

Patrick Birkinshaw

Butterworth, 1990

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Government & information

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Description

Aims to explain and make coherent the law relating to information held by central government and its agencies and local government. Concerned with a multiplicity of procedures and substantive provisions, it addresses the responsibilities of officials and lawyers in central local government.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Central government: introduction
  • the European perspective
  • Public Records Act
  • provision of information by Parliament
  • government publicity for the public
  • select committees
  • PCA
  • civil servants and their duties and responsibilities to ministers
  • Official Secrets Acts 1911-1989
  • the categories of protected information
  • the law realting to the protection of confidentiality
  • banning broadcasting
  • non-departmental public bodies and executive agencies. Part 2 Local government as providers and keepers of information: publication of information
  • the Audit Commission and the auditor
  • poll tax/community charge. Part 3 Restrictions on the use of and access to information by public officials and representatives: central government
  • local government. Part 4 Public access to information: general access under the LGATIA
  • Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960
  • access to personal information
  • Access to Personal Files Act 1988
  • Access to Health Records Bill
  • Consumer Credit Act, section 158
  • Data Protection Act. (Part contents)

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