Application to Disregard an Access to Information Request or Request for Correction 5 VI. What are the steps for an application to disregard? The following steps will occur when an application to disregard is made: 1. The public body receives an access to information request pursuant to section 6 of FOIP and LA FOIP or a request to correct personal information pursuant to section 32(1) of FOIP or section 31(1) of LA FOIP. Please note: • the 30 days in which a public body must respond to the applicant pursuant to sections 7 or 32(2) of FOIP or sections 7 or 31(2) of LA FOIP begins now. 2. The public body tries to clarify the scope of the request with the applicant (see IPC resource Understanding the Duty to Assist). 3. The public body makes an application for a disregard to the Deputy Commissioner and the Commissioner, and provides a copy of the entire application to disregard to the applicant. Please note: • it is strongly encouraged that the public body makes the application to disregard within 10 days of receiving the access to information request or request for a correction of personal information from the applicant; • an application to disregard will not be accepted if it is made 30 days or more after the public body receives the access to information request or request for a correction of personal information from the applicant; • the public body’s application to disregard should contain the elements discussed above. The 30-day clock does not stop for the public body until all items necessary to proceed are received by the IPC; and • the IPC has available a secure file transfer that can manage large files. Public bodies can ask the Deputy Commissioner for a link to the secure file transfer, through which the public body may directly forward its documentation. 4. The Deputy Commissioner reviews the application to disregard and ensures it has all the elements required to proceed. If not, the Deputy Commissioner will advise the public body of what is still required. The Director of Compliance or an Analyst, (depending on availability), is assigned once everything required is provided. 5. The IPC then provides notification, generally via email, to the public body and the applicant of the Commissioner’s intention to consider the public body’s application to disregard. The applicant is asked to provide to the IPC, a submission or response to the public body’s application to disregard, within 10 days. 6. The IPC expedites analysis for application to disregard files.
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