Encyclopedia > Thirty Year Rule

  Article Content

Thirty Year Rule

The Thirty Year Rule is the name given to the law in the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Australia, that states that the yearly Cabinet papers of a government will be released publically thirty years after they were created.

Usually this is on 1 January of a particular year. The only papers not released (or if they are contained in other papers 'blacked out') are those which are deemed to cause "damage to the country's image or foreign relations" if they were to be released.

stub



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Ludvika

... in the county of Dalarna. The municipality covers an area of 1500.7 km². Of the total population of 26450, 13112 are male, and 13338 are female. The populatio ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 35.5 ms