Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 24 July 2025. 126 Section 17: Advice From Officials Advice from officials 17(1) Subject to subsection (2), a head may refuse to give access to a record that could reasonably be expected to disclose: (a) advice, proposals, recommendations, analyses or policy options developed by or for a government institution or a member of the Executive Council; (b) consultations or deliberations involving: (i) officers or employees of a government institution; (ii) a member of the Executive Council; or (iii) the staff of a member of the Executive Council; (c) positions, plans, procedures, criteria or instructions developed for the purpose of contractual or other negotiations by or on behalf of the Government of Saskatchewan or a government institution, or considerations that relate to those negotiations; (d) plans that relate to the management of personnel or the administration of a government institution and that have not yet been implemented; (e) contents of draft legislation or subordinate legislation; (f) agendas or minutes of: (i) a board, commission, Crown corporation or other body that is a government institution; or (ii) a prescribed committee of a government institution mentioned in subclause (i); or (g) information, including the proposed plans, policies or projects of a government institution, the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to result in disclosure of a pending policy or budgetary decision. (2) This section does not apply to a record that: (a) has been in existence for more than 25 years; (b) is an official record that contains a statement of the reasons for a decision that is made in the exercise of a discretionary power or an adjudicative function; (c) is the result of product or environmental testing carried out by or for a government institution, unless the testing was conducted: (i) as a service to a person, a group of persons or an organization other than a government institution, and for a fee; or (ii) as preliminary or experimental tests for the purpose of:
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