The former commissioner also considered the law to be progressive, with authorities complying with their obligations and the public making widespread use of their FOI rights.The act has been in operation for more than seven years and, in that relatively short period, has been successfully established as being integral to the day-to-day business of public authority administration, and has resulted in more information being made public, in the interests of accountability and transparency.However, although the act is generally considered to be effective, weaknesses have been identified—primarily around the inflexibility of the order-making power, with regard to revising the live...