IPC Guide to FOIP
This guide is a comprehensive reference tool for the application of The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOIP). It is designed to assist government institutions that are subject to FOIP. The guidance is non-binding and every matter should be considered on a case-by-case basis.
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Chapter 1: Purposes and Scope of FOIP
Chapter 2: Administration of FOIP
Chapter 3: Access to Records
This chapter covers:
- Section 5: Who has a right of access
- Searching for records
- Records not responsive to access to information requests
- Section 5.1: Duty to assist
- Section 6: Making an application for access to information
- Section 7: Responses from government institutions
- Section 7.1: Applications deemed abandoned
- Section 8: Severing records
- Section 9: Fees and fee estimates
- Section 10: How access is provided
- Section 11: Transfers of access to information requests
- Section 12: Extensions of time
- Section 31: Individual’s access to their own personal information
- Section 45.1: Disregarding access to information or correction requests
- Section 49: Requests for review
- Section 50: Dismissing or discontinuing reviews
- Section 57: Appeals to the Court of Queen’s Bench
- Section 59: The exercise of individual rights by authorized representatives
- Section 65: Access to manuals
- Section 65.1: Records available without an application
Chapter 4: Exemptions from the Right of Access
This chapter covers:
- Interpretation of Exemptions
- Limited and Specific
- Balancing Interests
- Class and Harm Based Exemptions
- Mandatory and Discretionary Exemptions
- Exercise of Discretion
- Public Interest Overrides
- Subsections 19(3), 29(o)
- Tests and Guidance on Exemptions in Part III of FOIP
- Sections 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 30, 31 and subsection 29(1)