Number 30 of 2014

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2014

REVISED

Updated to 1 January 2023

Introduction

This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.

Related legislation

This Act is not collectively cited with any other Act.

Annotations

This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.

An explanation of how to read annotations is available at

www.lawreform.ie/annotations.

Material not updated in this revision

Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.

Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.

A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at

www.irishstatutebook.ie.

Acts which affect or previously affected this revision

• Assisted Decision -Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022 (46/2022)

• Personal Injuries Resolution Board 2022 (42/2022)

• Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Act 2022 (27/2022)

• Land Development Agency Act 2021 (26/2021)

• Credit Union Restructuring Board (Dissolution) Act 2020 (22/2020)

• Judicial Council Act 2019 (33/2019)

• CervicalCheck Tribunal Act 2019 (31/2019)

• Home Building Finance Ireland Act 2018 (28/2018)

• Data Protection Act 2018 (7/2018)

• Independent Reporting Commission Act 2017 (25/2017)

• Minerals Development Act 2017 (23/2017)

• Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman Act 2017 (22/2017)

• Prisons Act 2015 (57/2015)

• National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Act 2015 (22/2015)

• Workplace Relations Act 2015 (16/2015)

• Public Service Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 (7/2004)

All Acts up to and including Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Act 2022 (52/2022), enacted 21 December 2022 were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• European Union (Electronic Communications Code) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 444 of 2022)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Sections 9(6), 10(6) and 37(8)) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 53 of 2017)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Sections 9(6), 10(6) and 37(8)) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 558 of 2016)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Section 34(6)(b)) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 452 of 2016)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Amendment of Schedule 3) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 330 of 2016)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Section 37(8)) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 218 of 2016)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Effective Date for Certain Bodies) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 148 of 2015)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Exempted Public Bodies) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 144 of 2015)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Commencement Date for Certain Bodies) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 103 of 2015)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Fees) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 531 of 2014)

• Freedom of Information Act 2014 (Fees) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 484 of 2014)

All statutory instruments up to and including Planning And Development And Foreshore (Amendment) Act 2022 (Commencement) Order 2023 (S.I. No. 1 of 2023), made 9 January 2023, were considered in the preparation of this revision.