Information about Thirty Year Rule
The "thirty year rule" is the popular name given to a law in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Australia that states that the yearly cabinet papers of a government will be released publicly thirty years after they were created.
A good example of this was when the British cabinet papers for 1973 were released - the papers covering September 11 were barred from release as that was the day of the coup by Augusto Pinochet against Chilean President Salvador Allende.
This rule was changed by the Freedom of Information Act (Act of 2000 - which came into force Jan 1st 2005). The FOI act essentially removed the 2nd of the 30 year rules (the access one) and replaced it with some provisions allowing citizens to request information before 30 years, but removing some of those exemptions at the 30 year point. Therefore, at 30 years, information is now transferred to The National Archives, and is reviewed under the FOI act to see if it should be opened. The only rationale for keeping it closed within The National Archives is if an FOI exemption applies.
As a result of this change, releases now happen monthly, rather than annually.
United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the Public Records Act 1958, amended in 1967, states that "Public records ....other than those to which members of the public have had access before their transfer ...., shall not be available for public inspection until they have been in existence for [thirty] years or such other period....as the Lord Chancellor may,.... for the time being prescribe as respects any particular class of public records." The rule was essentially two 30 year rules; one requiring that records be transferred from government departments to the Public Record Office (now The National Archives) at 30 years unless specific exemptions were given (by the Lord Chancellor's Advisory Council on Public Records), and that they were opened at such time unless they were deemed likely to cause "damage to the country's image, national security or foreign relations" if they were to be released.A good example of this was when the British cabinet papers for 1973 were released - the papers covering September 11 were barred from release as that was the day of the coup by Augusto Pinochet against Chilean President Salvador Allende.
This rule was changed by the Freedom of Information Act (Act of 2000 - which came into force Jan 1st 2005). The FOI act essentially removed the 2nd of the 30 year rules (the access one) and replaced it with some provisions allowing citizens to request information before 30 years, but removing some of those exemptions at the 30 year point. Therefore, at 30 years, information is now transferred to The National Archives, and is reviewed under the FOI act to see if it should be opened. The only rationale for keeping it closed within The National Archives is if an FOI exemption applies.
As a result of this change, releases now happen monthly, rather than annually.
See also
- Classified information in the United Kingdom
- Freedom of Information Act 2000
- Freedom of information in the United Kingdom
- Redaction
- The National Archives
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Motto
"Dieu et mon droit" [2] (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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"Dieu et mon droit" [2] (French)
"God and my right"
Anthem
"God Save the Queen" [3]
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Anthem
Amhrán na bhFiann
The Soldier's Song
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Amhrán na bhFiann
The Soldier's Song
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Advance Australia Fair [1]
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Largest city Sydney
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Advance Australia Fair [1]
Capital Canberra
Largest city Sydney
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The National Archives (TNA) is a British Governmental organisation created in April 2003 to maintain a national archive for "England, Wales and the United Kingdom".[1]
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September 11th, 11th September, and 9/11 (pronounced "Nine-eleven") have been widely used in the Western media as a shorthand for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in the United States of America.
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Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte[1] (November 25, 1915 – December 10, 2006) was President of Chile from 1974 to 1990, and head of the military junta from 1973 to 1974.
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Motto
Por la Razón o la Fuerza
(Spanish: "By right or might")
Anthem
Himno Nacional de Chile
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Por la Razón o la Fuerza
(Spanish: "By right or might")
Anthem
Himno Nacional de Chile
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Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens[1] (July 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from November 1970 until his death during the coup d'état of September 11, 1973.
Allende's career in Chilean government spanned nearly forty years.
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Allende's career in Chilean government spanned nearly forty years.
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Classified information in the United Kingdom is a system used to protect information from intentional or inadvertent release to another state. The system is owned by the Cabinet Office and is implemented throughout central and local government and the critical national
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Freedom of Information Act 2000 (2000 c. 36) is the implementation of freedom of information legislation in the United Kingdom on a national level. It is an Act of Parliament that introduces a public "right to know" in relation to public bodies.
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Freedom of information legislation in the United Kingdom is controlled by two Acts of the United Kingdom and Scottish Parliaments respectively, which both came into force on January 1 2005.
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redaction can refer to a form of editing, in which multiple source texts are combined together (redacted), and are subjected to minor alteration to make it appear that they are a single work.
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The National Archives (TNA) is a British Governmental organisation created in April 2003 to maintain a national archive for "England, Wales and the United Kingdom".[1]
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