Marginal note:Public registry
51 (1) The Commissioner shall maintain a registry consisting of the following documents for examination by the public:
(a) public declarations made under section 25;
(b) summary statements made under section 26;
(c) notes of every gift or other advantage forfeited under subsection 11(3);
(c.1) decisions on exemption applications under section 38 and the accompanying reasons;
(d) decisions on waiver or reduction applications under section 39 and the accompanying reasons; and
(e) any other documents that the Commissioner considers appropriate.
Marginal note:Confidences of Queen’s Privy Council
(2) If a public office holder has recused himself or herself in respect of a matter and a public declaration is made in respect of that recusal under subsection 25(1) or section 30,
(a) no publication of the declaration shall be made if the very fact of the recusal could reveal, directly or indirectly, any of the following:
(i) a confidence of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada in respect of which subsection 39(1) of the Canada Evidence Act applies, and
(ii) special operational information within the meaning of subsection 8(1) of the Security of Information Act; and
(b) no publication of the declaration shall include any detail that could reveal, directly or indirectly, any of the following:
(i) a confidence of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada in respect of which subsection 39(1) of the Canada Evidence Act applies,
(ii) special operational information within the meaning of subsection 8(1) of the Security of Information Act,
(iii) information that is subject to solicitor-client privilege,
(iv) information that is subject to any restriction on disclosure created by or under any other Act of Parliament,
(v) information that could reasonably be expected to cause injury to international relations, national defence or national security, or to the detection, prevention or suppression of criminal, subversive or hostile activities,
(vi) information that could reasonably be expected to cause injury to the privacy interests of an individual, or
(vii) information that could reasonably be expected to cause injury to commercial interests.
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