Third

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2006

BILL 44

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

PRIVATE TRAINING INSTITUTIONS ACT

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

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

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

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

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

HONOURABLE

JOAN BURKE

Minister of Education

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Clause 1 of the Bill would amend the

definition

section of the Private

Training Institutions Act to add a definition of personal information.

In clause 2 of the Bill, the minister

would require that private training institutions provide information regarding

the contacting of students and the clause would prescribe limitations on the

use of that information.

Clause 3 of the Bill would amend the

regulation-making

section of the Act to clarify that information to be provided

to the superintendent to administer the Act may include personal information.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PRIVATE TRAINING

INSTITUTIONS ACT

Analysis

S.2 Amdt.

Definitions

S.18.1 Added

Information may be required

S.19 Amdt.

Regulations

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cP-25

as amended

Section 2 of the Private Training Institutions Act is amended by adding immediately

after paragraph (

c) the following:

(c.1) "personal information" means

(

i) personal information

within the meaning of

section 2 of the Access

to Information and Protection of Privacy Act , and

(ii) personal information within the meaning of

section 2 of the Personal Information

Protection and Electronic Documents Act ( Canada );

2. The Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 18 the following:

Information may

be required

18.1

(1) The

minister may require that a private training institution provide to the minister

or the superintendent students' personal information which is necessary to

advise students under paragraph (2 )(

a) or to conduct

interviews or surveys under paragraph (2)(b), including

(

a) names ;

(

b) addresses ;

(

c) telephone numbers;

(

d) program of study

information;

(

e) information regarding

program participation; and

(

f) the other student contact

information that the minister may require.

(2) Information required under subsection (1) shall

only be used for the purpose of contacting students to

(

a) advise them of their

rights under this Act, including provisions in this Act relating to protection

of students' financial interests; or

(

b) conduct interviews or

surveys, including surveys conducted to

(

i) collect information

on performance indicators applicable to programs provided by a private training

institution,

(ii) evaluate whether the

program provides the skills and knowledge required in order to obtain employment

in a vocation, or

(iii) determine whether a private training

institution has met the performance objectives applicable to its programs.

2. Paragraph 19(

g) of the Act is repealed and the

following substituted:

(

g) requiring private training institutions to make

returns and provide information to the superintendent, including personal

information of students, officers, directors and employees of the private

training institution, required for the administration of this Act;

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer