A JOINT Select Committee of Parliament met yesterday to begin the first review of the two-year-old Access to Information Act.
During the committee meeting, preliminary discussions were held on the possibility of changing the name of the legislation.
Information Minister Senator Burchell Whiteman, the committee chairman, has argued that a name change may be necessary to reflect the fact that the act was "about access to official documents" and not just access to information in a general sense.
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