1. Short title and commencement:
   These rules may be called the Right to Information (Regulation of Fee and Cost) Rules, 2005.
   They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
2. Definitions In the rules, unless the context otherwise requires:
   1. Act means the Right to Information Act, 2005.
   2. Section means section of the Act.
   3. All other words and expressions used herein but not defined and defined in the Act shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Act.
3. A request for obtaining information under Sub-section (1) of Section-6 shall be accompanied by an application fee of Rupees Ten by way of cash against proper receipt or by demand draft or banker's cheque payable to the FA&CAO, COFMOW, New Delhi.
4. For providing the information under Sub-section (1) of Section-7, the fee shall be charged by way of cash against proper receipt or by demand draft or bankers cheque payable to the FA&CAO, COFMOW, New Delhi at the following rates:-
   1. Rupees Two for each page ( in A-4 or A-3 size paper) created or copied;
   2. Actual charge or cost price of a copy in larger size paper;
   3. Actual cost or price for samples or models; and
   4. For inspection of records, no fee for the first hour; and a fee of Rupees five for each Fifteen minutes (or fraction thereof) thereafter.

For providing the information under Sub-section (5) of Section-7, the fee shall be charged by way of cash against proper receipt or by demand draft or banker's cheque payable to the FA &CAO, COFMOW, New Delhi at the following rates:-
1.For information provided in diskette or floppy, Rupees Fifty per diskette or floppy; and
2.For information provided in printed form at the price fixed for such publication or Rupees Two per page of photocopy for extracts from the publication.