Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act

Marginal note:Exceptions

• 45.42 (1) Despite section 45.4, the Commission shall not have access to information under the control, or in the possession, of the Force if the information reveals

  • (a) information relating to a request made by a member or other person appointed or employed under the authority of Part I for legal assistance or indemnification from Her Majesty in right of Canada;

  • (b) communications referred to in subsection 47.1(2);

  • (c) information that is protected by the privilege that exists between legal counsel and their client and that relates to the provision of advice to a member or other person appointed or employed under the authority of Part I when the privilege may be claimed by the member or other person and not the Force;

  • (d) information that is protected by the privilege that exists between legal counsel and their client when the privilege may be claimed by the Force and that relates to the Force’s dealings with the Commission, including

    • (i) legal opinions relating to the way in which the Force should conduct itself in regard to the Commission, and

    • (ii) minutes of meetings held by the Force relating to the way in which the Force should conduct itself in regard to the Commission; and

  • (e) any report prepared for the Commissioner in respect of a meeting held or to be held between the Commission and the Force and containing analysis or advice relating to the meeting.

• Marginal note:Exception — confidences

  (2) Nothing in this Part authorizes a person to disclose to the Commission a confidence of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada in respect of which subsection 39(1) of the Canada Evidence Act applies, and the Commission may not use the confidence if it is disclosed.