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40 Application To Omit Information If Health Or Safety At Risk

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  • 40 (1) An individual may, by application to the administrator, request that some or all of the information in relation to the individual that would otherwise be publicly accessible be omitted from or obscured in publicly accessible information if the individual believes that making that information publicly accessible could reasonably be expected to threaten the safety or mental or physical health of
  • (a) the individual, or
  • (b) a member of the individual’s household.
  • (2) An applicant under this section must do the following:
  • (a) specify in the application
    • (i) the grounds on which the application is based,
    • (ii) the particular information the individual seeks to have omitted or obscured, and
    • (iii) the address at which the individual is to be notified of the administrator’s decision under section 41(2);
  • (b) give the application to the administrator, together with the applicable fee;
  • (c) provide to the administrator any other records, information and verifications the administrator may require.
  • (3) Promptly after receiving an application under this section, the administrator must omit from or obscure in publicly accessible information the information specified by the applicant under subsection (2)(a)(ii).
  • (4) Despite subsection (3), the administrator must cease omitting from or obscuring in publicly accessible information the information specified by an applicant under subsection (2)(a)(ii) if the applicant fails to provide, within the time specified by the administrator, any records, information or verifications required under subsection (2)(c).

2019-23-40, effective November 30, 2020 (B.C. Reg. 250/2020).