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Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka · 2023 Revised Edition · Chapter III · Fundamental Rights

14A. Right of access to information

Unofficial copy, with amendments up to 31 Oct 2022. Later amendments are not included. Check the official text before you rely on it.

3[(1) Every citizen shall have the right of access to any information as provided for by law, being information that is required for the exercise or protection of a citizen’s right held by:-

(a)

the State, a Ministry or any Government

Department or any statutory body established or created by or under any law;

(b)

any Ministry of a Minister of the Board of

Ministers of a Province or any Department or any statutory body established or created by a statute of a Provincial Council;

(c)

any local authority; and

(d)

any other person, who is in possession of such information relating to any institution referred to in sub-paragraphs (a), (b) or (c) of this paragraph.

3 - Inserted by the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution Sec. 2.

(2)

No restrictions shall be placed on the right declared and recognized by this Article, other than such restrictions prescribed by law as are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals and of the reputation or the rights of others, privacy, prevention of contempt of court, protection of parliamentary privilege, for preventing the disclosure of information communicated in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.

(3)

In this Article, “citizen” includes a body whether incorporated or unincorporated, if not less than three-fourths of the members of such body are citizens.]

Read on from art 15

Chapter IV