The right of access to information held by public authorities is a guaranteed fundamental right of th any Sri Lankan under the 19 amendment to the Constitution (1). To give effect to this right the parliament adopted the Right to Information Act No 12 of 2016 (RTI Act) which gives the legal framework for access to information held by public th authorities. The RTI Act came into force on the 4 August 2016.
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