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					| FEES AND COST |  
					| (TO BE PUBLISHED IN PART-II, 
                    SECTION 3, SUB-SECTION (I) OF THE GAZETTE OF INDIA) |  
					| Government of India Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions
 (Department of 
                    Personnel and Training)
 
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					| New Delhi, dated the16th 
                    September, 2005 
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					| Notification |  
					| G.S.R.... In exercise of the 
                    powers conferred by the clauses (b) and (c) of sub-section 
                    (2) of section 27 of the Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 
                    of 2005), the Central Government hereby makes the following 
                    rules, namely:-
 
 1. Short title and commencement -
 
 1.
                    These rules may be called the Right to Information 
                    (Regulation of Fee and Cost) Rules,
 2005.
 
 2.
                    They shall come into force on the date of their publication 
                    in the Official Gazette.
 
 2. Definition - In the rules, unless the context otherwise 
                    requires, -
 
 a.
                    'Act' means the Right to Information Act, 2005;
 
 b.
                    'section' means section of the Act;
 
 c.
                    all other words and expressions used herein but not defined 
                    and defined in the Act shall
 have the meanings assigned to 
                    them in the Act.
 
 3. A request for obtaining information under sub-section (1) 
                    of section 6 shall be accompanied by an application fee of 
                    rupees ten by way of cash against proper receipt or by 
                    demand draft or bankers draft or bankers cheque payable to 
                    the Accounts Officer of the public authority.
 
 4. For providing the information under sub-section (1) of 
                    section 7, the fee shall be charged by way of cash against 
                    proper receipt or by demand draft or bankers cheque payable 
                    to the Accounts Officer of the public authority at the 
                    following rates:-
 
 a. Rupees two for each page (In A-4 or A-3 size paper) created 
                    or copied;
 
 b. Actual charge or cost price of a cost in larger size paper;
 
 c. Actual cost or price for samples or models; and
 
 d. For inspection of records, no fee for the first hour; and a 
                    fee of rupees five for each fifteen minutes (no fraction 
                    thereof) thereafter.
 
 5. For providing the information under sub-section (5) of 
                    section 7, the fee shall be charged by way of cash against 
                    proper receipt or by demand draft or bankers cheque payable 
                    to the Accounts Officer of the public authority at the 
                    following rates:-
 
 a. For information provided in diskette or floppy rupees fifty 
                    per diskette or floppy; and
 
 b. For information provided in printed form at the price fixed 
                    for such publication or rupees two per page of photocopy for 
                    extracts from the publication.
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					| Sd/- (Hari Kumar)
 Director
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					| [F.No.34012/8(s)/2005-Estt.(b)] |  
					| To 
 The Manager,
 Government of India Press,
 Mayapuri, New Delhi.
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					| Amendment to above Notification |  
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