Section 9
Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases.
The Right to Information Act, 2005
About this Act
An Act to provide for setting out the practical regime of right to information for citizens to secure access to information under the control of public authorities, in order to promote transparency and accountability in the working of every public authority, the constitution of a Central Information Commission and State Information Commissions and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Without prejudice to the provisions of section
8, a Central Public Information Officer or a State Public Information Officer, as the case may be, may
reject a request for information where such a request for providing access would involve an infringement
of copyright subsisting in a person other than the State.