The general right to information, which guarantees individuals the ability to reach for public information, is not absolute. It is subject to many limitations, which are provided for by both the legislator and the legislature. The need to protect certain kinds of goods and values leads to various ways of limiting access to public knowledge. One of them is to give priority to special regulations that introduce different principles and procedures of access to public knowledge. Such regulations are the provisions on forced restructuring to which the legislator refers in the text of the Act on Access to Public Information of 6 September 2001. It makes them one of the restrictions distinguished in the catalogue of Article 5. This study is devoted to determining the nature of this type of restriction and its essence.