“ When notification is made pursuant to section 1, each agency's procedures shall, to the extent permitted by law, afford the submitter a reasonable period of time in which the submitter or its designee may object to the disclosure of any specified portion of the information and to state all grounds upon which disclosure is opposed. ”
Notification
Definition and stakes
Notification, defined as a formal message conveying information or a legal requirement, serves as a crucial element in administrative, legal, and governmental processes. From the procedural obligations outlined in the Freedom of Information Act to the diplomatic protocols of international conventions, authors such as the Parliament of India, the United Nations, and Louis Brandeis have emphasized its role in ensuring transparency, accountability, and structured decision-making.
Whether in judicial reasoning, legislative frameworks, or public health directives, notification acts as a means to formalize action, elicit response, and maintain procedural integrity, highlighting its essential place in governance and legal practice.
Quotes about “notification”
Parliament of India, Freedom of Information Act, (2002)
“ Every notification issued under sub-section (2) shall be laid before each House of Parliament. (4) Nothing contained in this Act shall apply to such intelligence and security organisations which may be specified, by a notification in the Official Gazette, by a State Government from time to time. (5) Every notification issued under sub-section (4) shall be laid before the State Legislature. ”
John Sarbanes,
H.R. 1 Division A, Title III, Subtitle A
(2021)
“ Any planned and implemented technical measures to respond to and recover from the incident. “ (vi) In the case of any notification which is an update to a prior notification, any additional material information relating to the incident, including technical data, as it becomes available. ”
Lindley, Bowen, Smith A.L., Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company (1892)
“ In many cases you look to the offer itself. In many cases you extract from the character of the transaction that notification is not required, and in the advertisement cases it seems to me to follow as an inference to be drawn from the transaction itself that a person is not to notify his acceptance of the offer before he performs the condition, but that if he performs the condition notification is dispensed with. ”
Louis Brandeis, United States v. Smith (286 U.S. 6…
“ This is the meaning which, under the rules, a resolution bears when it is sent in normal course after the expiration of the period for reconsideration. Notification before that time is an exceptional procedure, which may be adopted only by unanimous consent of the Senate. [6] We think it a strained and unnatural construction to say that such extraordinary, expedited, notification signifies less than final action, or bears a different meaning than notification sent in normal course pursuant to the rules. ”
United Nations, United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (1988)
“ The Secretary-General shall transmit such notification, and any information which he considers relevant, to the Parties, to the Commission, and, where notification is made by a Party, to the Board. The Parties shall communicate their comments concerning the notification to the Secretary-General, together with all supplementary information which may assist the Board in establishing an assessment and the Commission in reaching a decision. ”
Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
“ The notification shall indicate the measure proposed to be taken with respect to the treaty and the reasons therefor.2. If, after the expiry of a period which, except in cases of special urgency, shall not be less than three months after the receipt of the notification, no party has raised any objection, the party making the notification may carry out in the manner provided in article 67 the measure which it has proposed. ”
Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (1972)
“ Where a Party or the World Health Organization has information which in its opinion may require an amendment to any of the Schedules, it shall notify the Secretary-General and furnish him with the information in support of the notification. ”
Sir Arthur Newsholme, Public health and insurance: American addresses (1920)
“ When, as in some areas, the medical officer of health or the tuberculosis officer takes little, if any, useful action after notifications have been received, the practitioner has an excuse for not notifying subsequent cases. He can argue with some cogency that notification has no value per se ”
“ This is why we have the validation process.With respect to the notification issue, I would encourage you to leave your talk pages centralised, but I suggest you put it on your alternate's watchlist. You still have to check your watchlist from time to time (maybe open it in a separate tab and refresh every 30 minutes or hour) , but there's a better chance of picking up any notifications while you're online. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 04:48, 27 February 2013 (UTC) It would be more productive to fix the concern and leave a talk page note? ”
“ Notification of a concentration and the decision to initiate an in-depth procedure are published in the Authority Official Bulletin. Non-publication shall not prevent the beginning of time limits and of in-depth procedures. 2. The publication shall state the names, office, economic activity of the undertakings concerned, the main content of the concentration, and time limit within which third parties communicate their opinions. The opinions of third parties communicate must be in written. 3. Commission decisions are published in the Authority Official Bulletin. ”
Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004…
“ Study.— The Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and in consultation with the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies and representatives of providers and participants in the telecommunications industry, shall conduct a study to determine whether it is cost-effective, efficient, and feasible to establish and implement an emergency telephonic alert notification system that will— (1) alert persons in the United States of imminent or current hazardous events caused by acts of terrorism ”
John Sarbanes,
H.R. 1 Division B, Title IV, Subtitle A
(2021)
“ The number of such notifications received from political committees during the year covered by the report. (2) A description of protocols and procedures developed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation relating to receipt and maintenance of records relating to such notifications. (3) With respect to such notifications received during the year covered by the report, a description of any subsequent actions taken by the Director resulting from the receipt of such notifications. ”
“ I just checked the three user talk pages of the users linked to above. It appears you have not (yet) left them a similar notice. Perhaps you could do so now. :) -- Cirt (talk) 03:59, 21 March 2010 (UTC) Update: Okay, well per your suggestion to do so, I have given a similarly worded notice (modeled directly after yours) to other users that have also previously used the +1, -1, edit summary at Template:New texts. Billinghurst, again I just wanted to say that I was only deferring to you on this to do this, as you had started this notification practice. ”
Parliament of India, Trade Marks Act, 1999 (1999)
“ Where a person giving notice of opposition or an applicant sending a counter- statement after receipt of a copy of such notice neither resides nor carries on business in India, the Registrar may require him to give security for the, costs of proceedings before him, and in default of such security being duly given, may treat the opposition or application, as the case may he, as abandoned. (7) The Registrar may, on request, permit correction of any error in, or any amendment of, a notice of opposition or a counter-statement on such terms as he thinks just. ”
Ernest W. Burgess, The city (1925)
“ Up to the last quarter of the nineteenth century, that is to say, up to about 1880, most newspapers, even in our large cities, were conducted on the theory that the best news a paper can print is a death notice or marriage announcement. ”
Parliament of Singapore, Organised Crime Act 2015 (2015)
“ Where a notice is to be served on a person who cannot, by the exercise of due diligence, be found, the notice may be served by leaving a copy of the notice for the person with some adult member of the person's family or with the person's employee residing with the person. ”
United States Department of State, Consular Information Sheet - Albania (2006)
“ For the latest security information, Americans traveling abroad should regularly monitor the Department’s Internet web site where the current Travel Warnings and Public Announcements, including the Worldwide Caution Public Announcement, can be found. ”
Courtenay Peregrine Ilbert, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)
“ Judicial Notice.—It may be doubted whether the subject of judicial notice belongs properly to the law of evidence, and whether it does not belong rather to the general topic of legal or judicial reasoning. Matters which are the subject of judicial notice are part of the equipment of the judicial mind. It would be absurd to require evidence of every fact; many facts must be assumed to be known. ”
by John Marshall Harlan, Shauer v. Alterton — Opinion of the Court
“ Other provisions of the statute are to the effect that 'actual notice consists in express information of a fact;' that 'constructive notice is notice imputed to a person not having actual notice;' and that 'every person who has actual notice of circumstances sufficient to put a prudent man upon inquiry as to a particular fact and who omits to make such inquiry with reasonable diligence, is deemed to have constructive notice of the fact itself.' Civil Code, §§ 2107-2109 ”
by John Marshall Harlan, American Surety Company of New York v…
“ After acquiring it, it was his duty, not as soon as possible to transmit information of it to the defendant, but to do it with reasonable promptness. He was not bound the first day or the next, necessarily. to give notice, but he was to give notice within a reasonable time; and it is for you to say, upon a consideration of all the circumstances of the case, whether he did, within a reasonable time after acquiring such knowledge, send the letter of May 23d. It might be reasonable under one state of facts; it might be unreasonable under another. ”
Charles James Lever,
Nuts and Nutcrackers
“ The newspapers announce that they are “sitting to examine witnesses”—a brief correspondence appears at intervals, to show that they have a secretary and a correspondent, a cloud then wraps the whole concern in its dark embrace, and not the most prying curiosity is ever able afterwards to detect any one feet concerning the commission or its labours, nor could you hear in any society the slightest allusion ever made to their whereabouts. ”
Secretary for Security, Hong Kong, Rules and Directions for the Questioning of Suspects and the Taking of Statements (1992)
“ If the person who has made a statement refuses to read it or to write the above mentioned Certificate at the end of it or to sign it, the senior police officer present shall record on the statement itself, and in the presence of the person making it, what has happened. If the person making the statement cannot read, or refuses to read it, the officer who has taken it down shall read it over to him and ask him whether he would like to correct, alter or add anything to what has been recorded and to put his signature or make his mark at the end. ”
Flora Annie Webster Steel,
On the Face of the Waters: A Tale of the Mutiny
“ There is always a suspense about that moment of search among the bundles of official correspondence, the files, the cases which fill up the camp mail, for the thin packet of private letters which is the only tie between you and the world; but when hopes of home news is superadded, the breath is apt to come faster. ”
Jerome Buell Lavay, Disputed Handwriting
“ Altogether, though the work is interesting, and even fascinating in a way, the responsibilities are so great that the effect on the nerves is often very trying at times. One thing we are particular about, and that is to take no chances. If we have the slightest doubt about the genuineness of a check we at once communicate, either by telegraph, special messenger, or telephone, with the supposed drawer of the check, and in this way turn doubt into certainty. ”
William T. Hornaday,
Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
“ The news in every slip must be vouched for by the sender, or it will not be used. Often it will appear as a letter signed by the sender; which is all right, only the news is most effective when printed without a signature. ”
Edward James Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)
“ This was almost unheard of in the Air Force and gave our project a lot of prestige. The new reporting procedures established by the Air Force letter greatly aided our investigation because it allowed us to start investigating the better reports before they cooled off. But it also had its disadvantages. It authorized the sender to use whatever priority he thought the message warranted. Some things are slow in the military, but a priority message is not one of them. ”
Joseph Rucker Lamar,
Kreitlein v. Ferger — Opinion of the Court
“ While in the previous act of 1841 [5 Stat. at L. 440, chap. 9] and 1867, substituted service of notices by publication was provided for; in the present act it is actual notice that is required to be given. ”
J. Malcolm Smith, Powers of the President during crises (1960)
“ Reporting Administrative Activity: In delegating powers in the areas of defense, foreign affairs or in time of emergency, Congress is [99] inclined to insist upon frequent reporting, and to specify carefully the kind of information and supporting documentation it expects to receive. It may stipulate, as in the Japanese Evacuation Claims Act of 1948 and the Mutual Defense Assistance Act of 1949, the subjects on which it wishes reports, and refrain from imposing an obligation to report at specified calendar intervals. ”
Secretary for Security, Hong Kong, Rules and Directions for the Questioning of Suspects and the Taking of Statements (1992)
“ When a person is being questioned or elects to make a statement, a record should be kept of the time or times at which, during the questioning or making of a statement, there were intervals or refreshment was taken. ”
Charles DeLano Hine,
Letters from an old railway official…
(1912)
“ With all our craze for accumulating files we do not record many telephone conversations. You must be the judge as to whether a record for your office is necessary, and in such exceptional cases state your wishes at the time. ”
National People's Congress, Civil Code of the People's Republic of China… (2020)
“ Where the relevant department receives a lost thing and knows who is its right holder, the department shall, in a timely manner, notify him to collect the lost thing; where the department does not know who is the right holder, it shall issue a lost-and-found notice in a timely manner. ”
“ During the Vice Presidential and Presidential review period, communications with any person not employed by the Federal Government relating to the substance of the regulatory action under review and directed to the Advisors or their staffs or to the staff of the Vice President shall be in writing and shall be forwarded by the recipient to the affected agency (ies) for inclusion in the public docket (s) . When the communication is not in writing, such Advisors or staff members shall inform the outside party that the matter is under review and that any comments should be submitted in writing. ”
Thurgood Marshall, Sabbath v. United States — Opinion of the Court
“ The Government seeks to invoke an exception to the rule of announcement, contending that the agents' lack of compliance with the statute is excused because an announcement might have endangered the informant Jones or the officers themselves. ”
Frederick Van Voorhies Holman,
Address at Oregon Bar Association annual meeting
(1910)
“ If no notice is provided by law, no effective notice can be given, since a notice not authorized can have no legal force, and, without a notice authorized by some valid statute, there can be no due process of law. ”
Parliament of the United Kingdom, Terrorism Act 2006 (2006)
“ The cases in which the statement, or the article or record to which the conduct relates, is to be regarded as having the endorsement of a person (“the relevant person”) at any time include a case in which— (a) a constable has given him a notice under subsection (3) ; (b) that time falls more than 2 working days after the day on which the notice was given; and (c) the relevant person has failed, without reasonable excuse, to comply with the notice. ”
“ Information disclosed under this provision or implementing directives and procedures shall not be deemed declassified as a result of such disclosure or subsequent use by a recipient. Such disclosures shall be reported promptly to the originator of the classified information. For purposes of this section, the Director of Central Intelligence may issue an implementing directive governing the emergency disclosure of classified intelligence information. (c) Each agency shall update, at least annually, the automatic, routine, or recurring distribution of classified information that they distribute. ”
Michael Grimm, National Blue Alert Act of 2013… (2013 | noyear)
“ Blue alert communications network The Attorney General shall establish a national Blue Alert communications network within the Department of Justice to issue Blue Alerts through the initiation, facilitation, and promotion of Blue Alert plans, in coordination with States, units of local government, law enforcement agencies, and other appropriate entities. ”
