Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter 1, Purposes and Scope of LA FOIP. Updated 7 March 2023. 19 errors on title. • Maintained the quasi-judicial decision-making within Government by requiring the registry officers (Registrar of Titles, Controller of Surveys, Director of Corporations, Registrar of Cooperatives, and Registrar of Personal Property Security) to be employed by the Government. … The service agreement with ISC covers the Land Registry, the Land Surveys Directory, the Personal Property Registry, the Corporate Registry, and the Common Business Identifiers Program (CBI). The Public can access these registries through ISC, but Government retains ultimate responsibility for the registries. The procedures for registering or searching documents in the public registries and the legal rights of people using public registries remain unchanged.38 In Review Report 297-2021, the Commissioner found that a portion of an applicant’s access to information request sent to the Ministry of Justice involved information maintained by ISC in the public registry. The Commissioner found the Ministry of Justice still maintained control of the information.39 IPC Findings In Review Report LA-2007-002, the Commissioner found that a tax certificate enabled by section 395 of The Rural Municipalities Act (RMA) qualified as “material available for purchase by the public”. If the applicant wanted the data elements included in the tax certificate, it would be excluded by virtue of subsection 3(1)(a) of LA FOIP. The applicant’s remedy would be to pay the appropriate fee and purchase the relevant tax certificates. The Commissioner also determined that subsection 3(1)(a) of LA FOIP had no requirement that information already available to anyone as “published material” within the meaning of subsection 3(1)(a) of LA FOIP need all be contained in a single document or format. All of the records the applicant requested could be purchased through a combination of tax certificates and title searches from Information Services Corporation or ISC. 38 Government of Saskatchewan, Publications, Summary – the Operation of Public Registry Statutes Act, available at https://publications.saskatchewan.ca/#/products/114854. Accessed February 27, 2023. 39 SK OIPC Review Report 297-2021 at [24].
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