In January 2014, the government passed an access to information policy which recognised the importance of RTI as a human right and made a formal commitment to pass an RTI law.2 Finally, in November 2015, the Ministry of Justice released a draft Access to Information Bill (the Bill), which was prepared wit. [...] On 21 January 2015, Malawi’s President, Peter Mutharika, threatened to veto the Bill unless it only applied to information which was created after its passage, which would severely limit the scope of its application and usefulness.3 The Open Government Partnership also announced recently that it is reviewing Malaw. [...] You are free to copy, distribute and display this work and to make derivative works, provided you give credit to Centre for Law and Democracy, do not use this work for commercial purposes and distribute any works derived from this publication under a licence identical to this one. [...] Section 2 contains a broad definition of the bodies to which the Bill applies, including “the Government, a statutory body, or any other body appointed by the Government” as well as private bodies which are owned, controlled or financed by public funds or which carry out a statutory or public function or . [...] This uncertainty should be clarified by including a statement, in section 48, that the Commission’s determinations are legally binding and that, in addition to ordering disclosure, they can order impose other remedies on public bodies which are structurally failing to implement the law, such as providing additional.
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