Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Guidelines for Professional Regulatory Bodies. Updated February 2024. 5 of the FOIP Regulations provides a government institution may disclose such information. These same provisions also authorize the disclosure of the terms or circumstances under which a person ceased to be an employee of a government institution. 16 For the purposes of clause 29(2)(u) of the Act, personal information may be disclosed: ... (g) to any person where the information pertains to: (i) the performance of any function or duty or the carrying out of any responsibility by an officer or employee of a government institution; or (ii) the terms or circumstances under which a person ceased to be an employee of a government institution including the terms of any settlement or award resulting from the termination of employment; It should be noted that the above disclosure provisions of FOIP authorize the disclosure of personal information at the discretion of the head of the professional regulatory body. They do not require the head of the professional regulatory body to disclose personal information. HIPA Health professional regulatory bodies that regulate members of a health profession pursuant to an Act qualify as a “trustee” under HIPA. Before publishing discipline decisions, health professional regulatory bodies who are trustees must determine if the discipline decision contains any personal health information. If so, then they must identify their authority under HIPA to disclose personal health information on their website. How does a professional regulatory body determine if it qualifies as a “trustee” under HIPA? Subsection 2(1)(t)(xiii) defines “trustee” as follows: 2(1)(t) “trustee” means any of the following that have custody or control of personal health information: … (xiii) a health professional body that regulates members of a health profession pursuant to an Act;
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