The Act contains a variety of requirements that allow the exemptions from disclosing certain categories of information. There are two types of exemptions – ‘absolute exemptions’ and ‘qualified exemptions’. Absolute exemptions have no public interest involved; some of the eight exemptions include: court records, information related to security matters and information that would breach the data protection rules. On the other hand, qualified exemptions focus on public interest; this information divided into ‘class based’ and ‘harm based’ exemptions. Class based exemptions include: information relating to government policy, communications with members of the Royal family and trade secrets. Though, harm based exemptions include: prejudice to economic
