Section 205.0.1: Collection and disclosure of information

Ontario

Highway Traffic Act

Part XIV: Records and Reporting of Accidents and Convictions

Collection by Minister

(1) The Minister may request and collect information from any public body or related government, as he or she considers appropriate, if the Minister considers it necessary for a purpose set out in subsection (5). 2008, c. 17, s. 45.

Disclosure by Minister

(2) The Minister may disclose information to any public body or related government, as he or she considers appropriate, if the Minister considers it necessary for a purpose set out in subsection (5). 2008, c. 17, s. 45.

Disclosure to Minister

(3) Upon receipt of a request for information from the Minister under subsection (1), a public body shall disclose to the Minister any information from their records that may assist the Minister with a purpose set out in subsection (5). 2008, c. 17, s. 45.

Exception

(4) The Minister may not disclose under subsection (2) the measurements used for comparison of photographs as described in section 32.2. 2008, c. 17, s. 45.

Purposes for collection and disclosure of information

(5) The only purposes for which information may be collected or disclosed under this section are the following:

1. To verify the accuracy of any information provided under this Act by an applicant for or holder of a driver's licence or vehicle permit.

2. To verify the authenticity of any document provided under this Act by an applicant for or holder of a driver's licence or vehicle permit.

3. To detect a false statement in any document provided under this Act by any person.

4. To detect or prevent the improper use of a driver's licence or vehicle permit.

5. To detect or prevent the improper issuance or renewal of a driver's licence or vehicle permit, including by conducting an audit or review of any issuance, renewal or cancellation of a driver's licence or vehicle permit or the conduct of any person or entity involved in issuing, renewing or cancelling a driver's licence or vehicle permit.

6. To provide a public body or related government with the information that the Minister believes is necessary to assist it with a purpose similar to a purpose set out in paragraph 1, 2, 3 or 4 if the holder of a driver's licence or vehicle permit has presented his or her driver's licence or vehicle permit in order to obtain a benefit or service under a legislatively authorized program or service administered or provided by that public body or related government. 2008, c. 17, s. 45.

Deemed compliance with privacy legislation

(6) Any disclosure of information under this section is deemed to be in compliance with clause 42 (1) (e) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and clause 32 (e) of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. 2008, c. 17, s. 45.

Notice under privacy legislation

(7) Any collection by a public body of personal information, as defined in the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, disclosed to the public body under this section is exempt from the application of subsection 39 (2) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and subsection 29 (2) of the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. 2008, c. 17, s. 45.

Otherwise authorized collection or disclosure

(8) The authority to collect and disclose information under this section is in addition to any other authority under this or any other Act for the Ministry to collect and disclose information. 2008, c. 17, s. 45.

Regulations

(9) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations prescribing a person or entity, or any class of them, as a public body for the purposes of this section. 2008, c. 17, s. 45.

Definitions

(10) In this section,

"public body" means,

(a) any ministry, agency, board, commission, official or other body of the Government of Ontario,

(b) any municipality in Ontario

(c) a local board, as defined in the Municipal Affairs Act, and any authority, board, commission, corporation, office or organization of persons some or all of whose members, directors or officers are appointed or chosen by or under the authority of the council of a municipality in Ontario, or

(d) a prescribed person or entity; ("organisme public")

"related government" means,

(a) the Government of Canada and the Crown in right of Canada, and any ministry, agency, board, commission or official of either of them, or

(b) the government of any other province or territory of Canada and the Crown in right of any other province of Canada, and any ministry, agency, board, commission or official of any of them. ("gouvernement lié") 2008, c. 17, s. 45.

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