Third

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 56

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

INCOME TAX ACT, 2000

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

LOYOLA SULLIVAN

Minister

of Finance and President of Treasury Board

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

This Bill would amend the Income Tax Act, 2000 to enable the

Minister of Finance, with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council,

to access limited personal information held by government departments and

agencies for the purpose of monitoring compliance with the Act.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE INCOME TAX ACT, 2000

Analysis

S.84.1 Added

Requirement to provide specified information

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

SNL2000 I-1.1

as amended

1. The Income

Tax Act, 2000 is amended by adding immediately after

section 84 the

following:

Requirement to

provide specified information

84.1

(1) The

minister may, with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council, require that

a department or agency of the government which keeps personal information about

a person provide a copy of that personal information as limited in subsection

(3) to the minister.

(2) Information obtained under subsection (1) may

be obtained and used only for the purpose of this Act and, subject to the

provisions of the federal Act, for any related purpose of that Act.

(3) In this section, "personal information"

is limited to

(

a) a person's name and any identifying number,

classification, or symbol;

(

b) a person's residential street address and

postal code, including the date of a person's last change of province of residence;

(

c) a person's date of birth or death;

(

d) the date of a person's registration or

deregistration with a government department or agency;

(

e) a date that a person used the services of a

government department or agency; and

(

f) information referred to in paragraphs (

a) to (

e) about a spouse, common-law partner or dependant of the person.

(4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), "personal

information" shall not include information about the health, disability or

medical condition or treatment of a person.

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer