Overriding effect of right to information ensures its provisions prevail over inconsistent secrecy laws and other instruments. The Act establishes an overriding effect for the Right to Information regime, declaring that its provisions prevail where they are inconsistent with existing secrecy laws or any other law or instrument, displacing conflicting statutory or instrument-based restrictions on access to information.
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Overriding effect of right to information ensures its provisions prevail over inconsistent secrecy laws and other instruments.
The Act establishes an overriding effect for the Right to Information regime, declaring that its provisions prevail where they are inconsistent with existing secrecy laws or any other law or instrument, displacing conflicting statutory or instrument-based restrictions on access to information.
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