Conflict of Interest Act

Marginal note:Public registry

• 51 (1) The Commissioner shall maintain a registry consisting of the following documents for examination by the public:

  • (a) public declarations made under section 25;

  • (b) summary statements made under section 26;

  • (c) notes of every gift or other advantage forfeited under subsection 11(3);

  • (c.1) decisions on exemption applications under section 38 and the accompanying reasons;

  • (d) decisions on waiver or reduction applications under section 39 and the accompanying reasons; and

  • (e) any other documents that the Commissioner considers appropriate.

• Marginal note:Confidences of Queen’s Privy Council

  (2) If a public office holder has recused himself or herself in respect of a matter and a public declaration is made in respect of that recusal under subsection 25(1) or section 30,

  • (a) no publication of the declaration shall be made if the very fact of the recusal could reveal, directly or indirectly, any of the following:

    • (i) a confidence of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada in respect of which subsection 39(1) of the Canada Evidence Act applies, and

    • (ii) special operational information within the meaning of subsection 8(1) of the Security of Information Act; and

  • (b) no publication of the declaration shall include any detail that could reveal, directly or indirectly, any of the following:

    • (i) a confidence of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada in respect of which subsection 39(1) of the Canada Evidence Act applies,

    • (ii) special operational information within the meaning of subsection 8(1) of the Security of Information Act,

    • (iii) information that is subject to solicitor-client privilege,

    • (iv) information that is subject to any restriction on disclosure created by or under any other Act of Parliament,

    • (v) information that could reasonably be expected to cause injury to international relations, national defence or national security, or to the detection, prevention or suppression of criminal, subversive or hostile activities,

    • (vi) information that could reasonably be expected to cause injury to the privacy interests of an individual, or

    • (vii) information that could reasonably be expected to cause injury to commercial interests.