Bill C-310
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Second Session, Forty-third Parliament, 69-70 Elizabeth II, 2020-2021 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
An Act to amend the Privacy Act (prevention of violence against women)
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FIRST READING, June 14, 2021
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Ms. Sahota |
SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Privacy Act to provide that personal information under the control of a government institution that relates to an individual who has been charged with or convicted of an offence involving intimate partner violence may, in certain circumstances, be disclosed without the consent of the individual.
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Available on the House of Commons website at the following address:
www.ourcommons.ca
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2nd Session, 43rd Parliament, 69-70 Elizabeth II, 2020-2021 |
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HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA |
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BILL C-310 |
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An Act to amend the Privacy Act (prevention of violence against women) |
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.S., c. P-21
Privacy Act
1 Section 8 of the Privacy Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):
Disclosure of information relating to prior charges or convictions
Start of inserted block(2.1) Subject to any other Act of Parliament, personal information under the control of a government institution may be disclosed to the extent that is necessary to give effect to a provincial law or program that authorizes the disclosure of information relating to an individual who has been charged with or convicted of an offence involving the use of violence by the individual against their intimate partner as defined in section 2 of the Criminal Code.
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Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
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