Rules of Procedure

20 Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. The Rules of Procedure. Effective 1 Dec. 2018. Updated 16 Aug. 2023. 3-10 Preparing a Report (1) If the commissioner’s office determines it requires additional relevant information to do its analysis, it will request that information from the trustee or any other organization or individual it considers appropriate. (2) In order to avoid delay, the commissioner’s office will request the information by a certain date and if information was not provided by that date or another date directed by the commissioner’s office, the commissioner’s office will proceed with its analysis or exercise the commissioner’s powers under section 46 of HIPA. (3) The commissioner’s office will proceed to prepare and issue its report. (4) The commissioner may from time to time, determine that a report will be issued in two parts and when so doing, will indicate in Part 1 of the report that the report is being issued in two parts. An example of this is where an issue of jurisdiction might be addressed in Part 1. (5) The report will be sent to: • The applicant, the trustee and the trustee’s designate(s) (if known). • The Deputy Minister of Health. • Where the report involves a health professional, the Chief Executive Officer of the association to which the health professional belongs and any other public body, organization or person the commissioner’s office considers appropriate. 3-11 Report will be Posted Unless the commissioner directs otherwise, seven days after the report is sent to the parties, the report will be: • Posted on the commissioner’s office website. • Forwarded to CanLll. • Forwarded to the Saskatchewan Legislative Library. • Forwarded to other commissioners or ombudsmen across Canada who are responsible for overseeing federal, provincial or territorial access or privacy legislation. 3-12 Trustee to Indicate Decision Pursuant to section 49 of HIPA, the trustee, within 30 days, shall indicate to the applicant and the commissioner’s office, the trustee’s decision on the recommendations in the report. If the trustee fails to advise the commissioner’s office within 30 days, the commissioner will consider that there is no response to the report and will so state in the commissioner’s Annual Report in accordance with subsection 60(2) of HIPA.

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