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259. Act No. 100 <strong>of</strong> 1980. Available in Swedish at: http://www.notisum.se/index2.asp?iP<br />
arentMenuID=236&iMenuID=314&iMiddleID=285&top=1&sTemplate=/template/<br />
index.asp. The author was unable to fi nd the Swedish Secrecy Act in English but it<br />
is described in some detail in Chapter 3 <strong>of</strong> the <strong>of</strong>fi cial document produced by the<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Justice, Public Access to <strong>Information</strong> and Secrecy with Swedish Authorities<br />
(December 2004). Available at: http://www.sweden.gov.se/content/1/c6/03/68/28/<br />
b8e73d81.pdf.<br />
260. Swanström, K., Access to information – an effi cient means for controlling public power. On<br />
fi le with the author.<br />
261. Ibid., p. 3.<br />
262. Public Access to <strong>Information</strong> and Secrecy with Swedish Authorities, note 259, Chapter 2.1<br />
263. According to Swanstöm, in normal cases the information is provided within two or<br />
three days. Note 260, p. 5.<br />
264. Ibid.<br />
265. Ibid.<br />
266. Public Access to <strong>Information</strong> and Secrecy with Swedish Authorities, note 259, Chapter<br />
3.6.1.<br />
267. The regulations are contained in the Secrecy Ordinance, Swedish Code <strong>of</strong> Statutes<br />
1980:657. Available in Swedish at: http://www.notisum.se/index2.asp?iParentMenuID<br />
=236&iMenuID=314&iMiddleID=285&top=1&sTemplate=/template/index.asp.<br />
268. Public Access to <strong>Information</strong> and Secrecy with Swedish Authorities, note 259, Chapter<br />
3.3.2.<br />
269. Ibid., Chapter 3.5.4.<br />
270. Ibid., Chapter 3.3.3.<br />
271. See Banisar, D., <strong>Freedom</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Information</strong> Around the World 2006: A Global <strong>Survey</strong> <strong>of</strong> Access<br />
to Government <strong>Information</strong> Laws (Privacy International, 2006), p. 142 for an example <strong>of</strong><br />
this. Available at: http://www.privacyinternational.org/foi/foisurvey2006.pdf.<br />
272. Section 58. The 1997 Constitution is available at: http://www.servat.unibe.ch/law/icl/<br />
th00000_.html.<br />
273. Section 59.<br />
274. Sections 56 and 57. The 2007 Constitution is available at: http://www.asianlii.org/th/<br />
legis/const/2007/.<br />
275. B.E. 2540 (1997). Available at: http://www.oic.go.th/content_eng/act.htm.<br />
276. See, for example, a case study on exposure <strong>of</strong> corruption in Thai schools using the right<br />
to information law in ARTICLE 19, Centre for Policy Alternatives, Commonwealth<br />
Human Rights Initiative and Human Rights Commission <strong>of</strong> Pakistan, Global Trends<br />
on the Right to <strong>Information</strong>: A <strong>Survey</strong> <strong>of</strong> South Asia (London: July, 2001), pp. 23-24.<br />
Available at: http://www.article19.org/pdfs/publications/south-asia-foi-survey.pdf.<br />
See also the website <strong>of</strong> the Offi cial <strong>Information</strong> Commission: http://www.oic.go.th/<br />
content_eng/default_eng.asp.<br />
277. Described as a Board in the translation <strong>of</strong> the Law relied upon.<br />
278. See http://www.oic.go.th/iwebstat/istatyear.asp?language=En.<br />
279. Available at: http://www.freedominfo.org/documents/uganda_ati_act_2005.pdf.<br />
280. It is not entirely clear what this Committee’s mandate is but it is presumably a body<br />
that sets internal rules for the judicial system.<br />
281. Section 39 <strong>of</strong> the version <strong>of</strong> the Law relied upon for this chapter refers to sections 35<br />
and 40 but we assume this is a mistake, since the sections dealing with appeals are<br />
actually sections 37 and 38.<br />
282. See, for example, the South African Protected Disclosures Act, 2000 and the Public<br />
Interest Disclosure Act 1998 <strong>of</strong> the United Kingdom.<br />
283. The European Court has on some occasions founded a right <strong>of</strong> access to information<br />
on other rights, for example to family life or privacy. See the chapter <strong>of</strong> this book on<br />
International Standards and Trends.<br />
284. Available online at: http://www.cfoi.org.uk/foiact2000.html.<br />
285. The <strong>Freedom</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Information</strong> (Scotland) Act 2002. Available at: http://www.hmso.gov.<br />
uk/legislation/scotland/acts2002/20020013.htm.<br />
286. These are available at: http://www.dca.gov.uk/foi/reference/legislation.htm#coverage.