Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter3, Access to Records. Updated 5 May 2023. 67 request for review by the Information and Privacy Commissioner within one year after the notice is given. Generally, this statement can appear as follows: If you would like to exercise your right to request a review of this decision, you may do so by completing a “Request for Review” form and forwarding it to the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner within one year of this notice. Your completed form can be sent to #503 – 1801 Hamilton Street, Regina, Saskatchewan, S4P 4B4 or emailed to intake@oipc.sk.ca. This form is available at the same location which you applied for access or by contacting the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner at (306) 787-8350. The Ministry of Justice and Attorney General has developed model letters. The samples include a letter for applicants where an application is being declared abandoned. See 18 Applications Deemed Abandoned – LA FOIP. Section 8: Severability Severability 8 Where a record contains information to which an applicant is refused access, the head shall give access to as much of the record as can reasonably be severed without disclosing the information to which the applicant is refused. Severability is the principle described in section 8 of LA FOIP requiring that information be disclosed if it does not contain, or if it can be reasonably severed from, other information that the head of a local authority is authorized or obligated to refuse to disclose under the Act.107 Severing is the actual exercise by which portions of a document are blacked or greyed out before the document is provided to an applicant. It is the physical masking or removal from a record any information that is being exempted from disclosure in order that the remainder of the record may be disclosed.108 107 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, Glossary of terms related to access to information and privacy, https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/access-information-privacy/accessinformation/glossary-access-information-privacy.html. Accessed on June 27, 2019. 108 British Columbia Government Services, FOIPPA Policy Definitions at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/governments/services-for-government/policiesprocedures/foippa-manual/policy-definitions. Accessed April 23, 2020.
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