Office of the Saskatchewan Information and Privacy Commissioner. Steps to Request a Correction of Personal Information or Amendment of Personal Health Information. 29 April 2025. Step 1: Identify Errors or Omissions in the Record The right provided to individuals by FOIP, LA FOIP and HIPA with regard to the correction of personal information or amendment of personal health information about themselves is not an absolute right to require a correction or amendment of any such information that they consider to be incorrect. What the right of correction or amendment gives the individual is a mechanism for requesting the correction of personal information or amendment of personal health information about themselves when they believe that there is an error or omission in the information. After accessing a record from the government institution, local authority or trustee, the individual (you) making the request must identify the information in the record that they believe contains an error or omission. An error is mistaken or wrong information or information that does not reflect the true state of affairs. An omission is information that is incomplete or missing or that has been overlooked. In order to exercise the right of correction/amendment of the information in the record that you believe contains an error or omission, it must qualify as your own personal information or personal health information. Personal information is defined at subsection 24(1) of FOIP and subsection 23(1) of LA FOIP as “personal information about an identifiable individual that is recorded in any form.” The list of examples provided at subsections 24(1) of FOIP/23(1) of LA FOIP is not meant to be exhaustive. The Guide to FOIP, Chapter 6: Protection of Privacy and the Guide to LA FOIP, Chapter 6: Protection of Privacy provide further guidance on what qualifies as personal information and what is not personal information. Personal health information is defined at subsection 2(1)(m) of HIPA as, with respect to an individual, whether living or deceased: • Information with respect to the physical or mental health of the individual. • Information with respect to any health service provided to the individual.
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