Section 9: Grounds for rejection to access in certain cases
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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.
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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.