It needs to be understood that Section 11 of the 2018 Ordinance prohibits the disclosure of “particulars of any person making a declaration under this Ordinance or any information received in any declaration made under this Ordinance” which is not the case in the instant Appeal. In the instant Appeal, the Appellant has not sought amount declared by identifiable individuals through SRO of 2013 which is also exempted from disclosure under different clauses of Section 7 and Section 16 of the Right of Access to Information Act, 2017.
The Appellant has only sought information about the number of individuals and total amount declared through the amnesty schemes in different formation of the Respondent, FBR through amnesty scheme under the SRO of 2013.
This commission holds that the disclosure of requested information about total number of individuals/companies, total amount declared through different formation of FBR under SRO 2013 is not hit by any of the exemption clauses of the Right of Access to Information Act, 2017 as such disclosure will not reveal names of any identifiable individual and any company leading to actionable breach of confidence and invasion of privacy of identifiable individuals.