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'''Q2: What should be proactively published if a minister does not change portfolio when the new Cabinet is appointed?'''
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The ''Access to Information Act'' requires, within 120 days after the appointment of the minister, the proactive publication of the package of briefing materials that is prepared for the minister to enable them to assume the powers, duties and functions of their office.
Ministers, once appointed, remain in office until they resign, die, or are dismissed or replaced. So, technically, the proactive publication requirements would not apply to a minister who continues in the same office following an election.
However, we encourage institutions to proactively publish, in the spirit of openness and transparency, the package of briefing material prepared for a minister, even if the minister continues in the same office following an election.
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