Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter 1, Purposes and Scope of LA FOIP. Updated 7 March 2023. 21 public registry statute.45 It can also be an electronic registry. Examples include the Information Services Corporation land titles registry and the corporate registry. Public record is defined as a record that a local authority is required by law to keep, such as minutes of Council meetings. Public records are generally open to view by the public.46 IPC Findings In Review Report LA-2007-002, the Commissioner considered an applicant’s request for access to the complete tax roll for the R.M. of Edenwold. The Commissioner determined that subsection 3(1)(a) of LA FOIP did not apply to the R.M.’s tax rolls and assessment rolls because the R.M. did not publish this information and did not sell it. The Commissioner also found that subsection 3(1)(b) of LA FOIP would not apply because the tax roll was not a “matter of public record”. Further, the Commissioner found that the assessment roll was only available to the public for a prescribed period of approximately one month and that this was inconsistent with the concept of a “matter of public record”. In 605499 Saskatchewan Ltd. v Rifle Shot Oil Corp., 2019 SKCA 133 (CanLII) the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal determined that agreements regarding compensation for surface rights were not excluded from access under the equivalent subsection 3(1)(b) of The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. 45 Subsection 2(1)(i) of The Operation of Public Registry Statutes Act, SS 2013, c O-4.2. Subsection 2(1)(h) of this Act also defines “public registry statute” as an Act designated by subsection (2) with respect to a service agreement that has been entered into and includes regulations or an Act for which a contractor is authorized to exercise powers or fulfill duties in accordance with subsection 10(1) and includes regulations. 46 Germain v. Automobile Injury Appeal Commission, 2009 SKKB 106 (CanLII) at [69] and [72]. Also cited in SK OIPC Review Report LA-2010-002 at [52].
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