Guide to FOIP-Chapter 4

Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to FOIP, Chapter 4, Exemptions from the Right of Access. Updated 8 April 2024. 198 (i) Developing methods of testing. (ii) Testing products for possible purchase. In other words, information can be withheld if the testing was done for the purpose of developing testing methods, such as a new methodology for tire recycling. Information can also be applied to test results compiled to determine whether or not a government institution would purchase a product.709 Section 19: Third Party Business Information Third party information 19(1) Subject to Part V and this section, a head shall refuse to give access to a record that contains: (a) trade secrets of a third party; (b) financial, commercial, scientific, technical or labour relations information that is supplied in confidence, implicitly or explicitly, to a government institution by a third party; (c) information, the disclosure of which could reasonably be expected to: (i) result in financial loss or gain to; (ii) prejudice the competitive position of; or (iii) interfere with the contractual or other negotiations of; a third party; (d) a statement of a financial account relating to a third party with respect to the provision of routine services from a government institution; (e) a statement of financial assistance provided to a third party by a prescribed Crown corporation that is a government institution; or (f) information supplied by a third party to support an application for financial assistance mentioned in clause (e). (2) A head may give access to a record that contains information described in subsection (1) with the written consent of the third party to whom the information relates. (3) Subject to Part V, a head may give access to a record that contains information described in subsection (1) if: 709 Service Alberta, FOIP Guidelines and Practices: 2009 Edition, Chapter 4 at p. 193.

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