Houses of the Oireachtas (Inquiries, Privileges and Procedures) Act 2013
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Restriction of Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003. |
127.— (1) Without prejudice to the exemption for official documents and private papers, the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003 shall not apply to a record relating to a Part 2 inquiry or other committee business unless— | |
(a) the record was created before the inquiry or other committee business, as the case may be, commenced, or | ||
(b) the record relates to the expenses of the committee or other matters concerning the general administration of the committee. | ||
(2) subsection (1) applies whether the record concerned is held by— | ||
(a) the committee, | ||
(b) the Oireachtas Commission, | ||
(c) a tribunal or commission after being made available to it under section 29 (3), or | ||
(d) any other House or committee after being transferred to it on the dissolution of a tribunal or commission to which the record was made available under section 29 (3). | ||
(3) In this section “record” has the same meaning as in the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003. |