{"id":33,"date":"2026-09-01T07:36:24","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T07:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/switch.sc\/dev\/urc\/access-to-information\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:38:11","slug":"access-to-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/switch.sc\/dev\/urc\/access-to-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Access to Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"33\" class=\"elementor elementor-33\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8a0e9a5 page-el urc-cols e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8a0e9a5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a1prose urc-prose e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a1prose\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a1lead elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a1lead\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"lead\">The aims of this Act is to foster good governance through enhancing transparency, accountability, integrity in public service and administration, participation of persons in public affairs including exposing corruption, to recognise the right of access to information envisaged in Article 28 of the Constitution and for matters connected therewith and incidental thereto.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a1body elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a1body\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Designating an Information Officer<\/h2><p>In accordance with Section 7 (1) of the Access to Information Act 2018, all public bodies are required to designate an Information Officer (IO) whose main responsibility will be to process requests for information from the public.<\/p><p>The Information Officer for URC is Casey Cesar. Requests for information may be sent to <a href=\"mailto:info@urc.sc\">info@urc.sc<\/a> or made by telephone on <a href=\"tel:+2482783867\">+248 2783 867<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a1side e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"a1side\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a1card elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a1card\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<aside class=\"urc-aside\"><h2>Information Officer<\/h2><dl class=\"urc-dl\"><div><dt>Name<\/dt><dd>Casey Cesar<\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Email<\/dt><dd><a href=\"mailto:info@urc.sc\">info@urc.sc<\/a><\/dd><\/div><div><dt>Contact number<\/dt><dd><a href=\"tel:+2482783867\">+248 2783 867<\/a><\/dd><\/div><\/dl><\/aside>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Officer Name &mdash; Email &mdash; Contact &mdash; General enquiries Contact the Commission The aims of this Act is to foster good governance through enhancing transparency, accountability, integrity in public service and administration, participation of persons in public affairs including exposing corruption, to recognise the right of access to information envisaged in Article 28 of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":32,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/switch.sc\/dev\/urc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/switch.sc\/dev\/urc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/switch.sc\/dev\/urc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/switch.sc\/dev\/urc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/switch.sc\/dev\/urc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/switch.sc\/dev\/urc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/switch.sc\/dev\/urc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/switch.sc\/dev\/urc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}