The law makes it the duty of every public authority to maintain all its records "duly catalogued and indexed". 

An Information Officer shall, "as expeditiously as possible and in any case within fourteen working days" of the receipt of a request for information "make a decision either to provide the information requested on the payment of a fee...or to reject the request...and shall forthwith communicate such decision to the citizen who made the request".

The RTI Commission consists of five members appointed by the President upon recommendation of the Constitutional Council. They will be drawn from the Bar Association of Sri Lanka' organisations of publishers, editors and media persons; and "other civil society organisations".

The duties and functions of the Commission includes monitoring the performance and ensuring the due compliance by public authorities of the duties cast on the under the RTI Act. 

It has the power to direct a public authority to provide information; (a)    to direct a public authority to publish any information withheld by a public authority from the public (subject to the exemptions clause); and to hear and determine any appeals made to it by any aggrieved person; among other things.