Section 22: Act to have overriding effect

Right to Information Act, 2005

English statutory text

22. Act to have overriding effect.

¶The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in the Official Secrets Act, 1923 (19 of 1923), and any other law for the time being in force or in any instrument having effect by virtue of any law other than this Act.

DoPT consolidated edition, 18 November 2025. PDF footnote numbers removed; consolidation brackets and omission marks retained. See the official PDFs for amendment footnotes and schedules.

Study: explanations and related material

Understand this section

The Act overrides inconsistent provisions of the Official Secrets Act and other laws or instruments. This does not erase RTI’s own exemptions: evaluate a refusal under the relevant RTI provision instead of treating a secrecy label alone as decisive.

Original Banaka explanation · checked 30 September 2026 · not a substitute for the statute.