Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 8 April 2024. 171 investment strategies, budgets, and profit and loss statements. The financial information must be specific to a particular party.614 Commercial information means information relating to the buying, selling or exchange of merchandise or services. This includes third party associations, past history, references and insurance policies and pricing structures, market research, business plans and customer records.615 Scientific information is information exhibiting the principles or methods of science. The information could include designs for a product and testing procedures or methodologies.616 It is information belonging to an organized field of knowledge in the natural, biological, or social sciences or mathematics. In addition, for information to be characterized as scientific, it must relate to the observation and testing of specific hypothesis or conclusions and be undertaken by an expert in the field. Finally, scientific information must be given a meaning separate from technical information.617 Technical information is information relating to a particular subject, craft or technique. Examples are system design specifications and the plans for an engineering project.618 It is information belonging to an organized field of knowledge, which would fall under the general categories of applied sciences or mechanical arts. Examples of these fields would include architecture, engineering, or electronics. It will usually involve information prepared by a professional in the field and describe the construction, operation or maintenance of a structure, process, equipment or thing. Finally, technical information must be given a meaning separate from scientific information.619 614 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4 at p. 191. Definition first relied on for third party exemption in SK OIPC Review Report F-2005-003 at [23]. 615 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4 at p. 191. Definition relied on for first time in terms of this provision in SK OIPC F-2005-006 at [21]. 616 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4 at p. 191. Definition first relied on for third party exemption in SK OIPC Review Report F-2006-002 at [85]. 617 Definition originated from ON IPC Order P-454 at p. 4. Adopted in SK OIPC Review Report F-2006002 at [87]. 618 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4 at p. 191. Definition first relied on for third party exemption in SK OIPC Review Report F-2006-002 at [85]. 619 Definition originated from ON IPC Order P-454 at p. 4. Adopted in SK OIPC Review Report F-2005003 at [26].
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