Atlas v0.1 · Right to information · Right to service
Malaysia
ISO MYS
Your first move, anywhere
Request legal route, responsible officer, fees, timeline, appeal route, and one high-value record: budget, contract, land, hospital stock, service standard, audit, court delay, police complaint, or procurement payment.
Convert the legal right into a citizen test: receipt, tracking number, statutory deadline, written reasons, actual record release, appeal, and proactive publication.
Capture flags to watch: Delay; discretion; opacity; fragmentation; fear; patron dependency; counterfeit transparency
Right to information
To confirm
No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication.
Checked against: RTI Rating country data · 2026-07-05
Right to service
To confirm
Sources: OECD Administrative Simplification
Help confirm this
Search the official gazette and government sites for: "Malaysia" "right to service" OR "public service guarantee" OR "citizen charter" OR "service charter" OR "administrative procedure" OR "ombudsman". Found the law? Send it through the route below.
Inside Malaysia: 16 subdivisions
Where a subdivision shows a cited law, the citation comes from the named source and the official text still needs confirming. Where it shows nothing, the national law may apply and the local rules are unconfirmed.
What to confirm at your local office, whichever subdivision you are in
- Verify statutory deadline and extension rule.
- Verify filing fee, copying fee, waiver, and electronic access rule.
- Verify internal review, independent review, judicial review, and silence-as-refusal rule.
- Verify relevant information commission, ombudsman, court, tribunal, or internal appeal body.
- Verify official web portal or responsible officer contact.
Records that should already be published: Budget; procurement; contract awards; payment status; public land; service standards; audit reports; subsidies; court/police/hospital/school records.
| Code | Subdivision | Type | Access-law status | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY-01 | Johor | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-02 | Kedah | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-03 | Kelantan | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-04 | Melaka | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-05 | Negeri Sembilan | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-06 | Pahang | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-07 | Pulau Pinang | State | Penang Freedom of Information Enactment 2010 · State FOI enactment Sourced confirm current official text | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-08 | Perak | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-09 | Perlis | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-10 | Selangor | State | Freedom of Information (State of Selangor) Enactment 2011 · State FOI enactment Sourced confirm current official text | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-11 | Terengganu | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-12 | Sabah | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-13 | Sarawak | State | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-14 | Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur | Federal territory | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-15 | Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan | Federal territory | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
| MY-16 | Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya | Federal territory | No local law confirmed · national law may apply: No comprehensive national RTI/ATI law confirmed in imported RTI Rating table; check constitution, administrative code, environmental information, archives, procurement, or local rules before publication. To confirm | source · 2026-07-05 |
Right to service, all 16 subdivisions: Candidate legal family, needs official verification (inherited from the national status above).
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