INTRODUCTION The scientific theories determining the content of the concept "legislation", its elements and structure are investigated. Information support of public administration bodies is determined. The types of information that are in circulation under information support of public administration bodies are considered. The content and peculiarities of information legislation of Ukraine and its part regulating information provision of public administration bodies are considered. An attempt

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... s made to determine the historical stages of the formation of legislation that regulates the information provision of public administration bodies. The system of legislation of Ukraine, which regulates information support of public administration bodies, is determined. The author's adjustment of e legal acts regulating information provision of public administration bodies is presented. Legal acts are distributed according to their hierarchy. It is presented an attempt to classify legal acts in terms of social relations they regulate: acts regulating relations that arose during the creation of information in the process of scientific, scientific-technological, inventive, economic, political or other creative, public, private activity of citizens and their associations, legal entities, the state; acts that create the legal basis for the formation and use of information resources, databases, registries; acts ensuring the implementation of the right of individuals and legal entities to access, information use; acts regulating the use of information technologies and means of their provision; аcts on information security issues. The problems of legal regulation of information provision of public administration bodies are determined, and proposals for improvement of Ukrainian legislation regulating the information provision of public administration bodies are made.