Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Accès à l’information et la protection de la vie privée) — Canada — Yukon law | Esheria

Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Accès à l’information et la protection de la vie privée)

This part defines key terms used throughout the Act, including access requests, collection, disclosure, personal information management, and privacy breaches.

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Jurisdiction
Canada — Yukon
Instrument
Act or statute
Version
Undated source snapshot
Language
en
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Statute overview

About this statute

This part defines key terms used throughout the Act, including access requests, collection, disclosure, personal information management, and privacy breaches. A ministerial body’s head must do a privacy impact assessment before carrying out certain proposed programs, services, data-linking activities, information management services, or major changes to them. Public bodies may collect, use, and disclose personal information only in limited situations, must keep it necessary and timely, and employees must report suspected unauthorized collection, use, or disclosure without delay. This provision lets public bodies disclose personal information for research only under a written agreement with required conditions, and sets rules for privacy breach reporting, correction requests, and several approval powers for the Commissioner in Executive Council. This provision requires ministerial bodies to maintain an open access register, sets rules for what can be deposited, and lays out the access-request processing steps and deadlines.