Section 9: Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases

Right to Information Act, 2005

English statutory text

9. Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases.

¶Without prejudice to the provisions of section 8, a Central Public Information Officer or a State Public Information Officer, as the case may be, may reject a request for information where such a request for providing access would involve an infringement of copyright subsisting in a person other than the State.

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

Access may be rejected if providing it would infringe copyright belonging to a person other than the State. This is not a blanket rule that all copyrighted government records are unavailable, and it operates without prejudice to Section 8.

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