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Versions of s. 2(1)

A-1 — Access to Information Act · 2 versions · View current text

Historical text comes from the Justice Laws point-in-time corpus and is unofficial — not the official version.

  1. 2019-06-21 to present available View Source
    The purpose of this Act is to extendenhance the presentaccountability lawsand transparency of Canadafederal institutions in order to providepromote aan rightopen ofand accessdemocratic society and to informationenable inpublic records under the control of a government institution in accordance with the principles that government information should be available to the public, that necessary exceptions to the right of access should be limited and specific and that decisionsdebate on the disclosureconduct of governmentthose information should be reviewed independently of government.institutions.
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    The purpose of this Act is to enhance the accountability and transparency of federal institutions in order to promote an open and democratic society and to enable public debate on the conduct of those institutions.

  2. 2002-12-31 to 2019-06-21 View Source

    The purpose of this Act is to extend the present laws of Canada to provide a right of access to information in records under the control of a government institution in accordance with the principles that government information should be available to the public, that necessary exceptions to the right of access should be limited and specific and that decisions on the disclosure of government information should be reviewed independently of government.