Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guidelines for Professional Regulatory Bodies. Updated February 2024. 2 Applicable Access and Privacy Laws FOIP Some professional regulatory bodies qualify as a “government institution” under FOIP. Before publishing discipline related documents, professional regulatory bodies who are government institutions should first determine if the discipline decision contains personal information. If so, then it must identify its authority under FOIP to disclose personal information. Therefore, these professional regulatory bodies must first have authority under FOIP to disclose personal information when publishing discipline related documents on their websites. How does a professional regulatory body figure out if it qualifies as a “government institution” under FOIP? Some professional regulatory bodies qualify as a “government institution” pursuant to subsection 2(1)(d)(i), which provides: 2(1)(d) “government institution” means, subject to subsection (2): (i) the office of Executive Council or any department, secretariat or other similar agency of the executive government of Saskatchewan; Other professional regulatory bodies may qualify as a “government institution” pursuant to subsections 2(1)(d)(ii)(A) and/or 2(1)(d)(ii)(B). These two subsections of FOIP provide as follows: 2(1)(d) “government institution” means, subject to subsection (2): … (ii) any prescribed board, commission, Crown corporation or other body, or any prescribed portion of a board, commission, Crown corporation or other body, whose members or directors are appointed, in whole or in part: (A) by the Lieutenant Governor in Council; (B) by a member of the Executive Council;
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