Secure Air Travel Act

Marginal note:Information destruction — Minister

• 18 (1) Despite any other Act of Parliament, including the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act, the Minister must, within seven days after the day on which a flight prescribed by regulation departs or, if the flight is cancelled, within seven days after the day on which it is cancelled, destroy any document or record containing the following information about a person who is or was on board or was expected to be on board an aircraft for the flight, unless that information is reasonably required for the purposes of this Act:

  • (a) any information that is provided to the Minister under subsection 6(2) or is deemed to have been provided to the Minister under subsection 6(3);

  • (b) any information that is provided to the Minister under subsection 6(4); and

  • (c) any information that is disclosed to the Minister under paragraph 13(d), if that information was originally provided to the Minister of Transport under subsection 6(4).

• Marginal note:Information destruction — Minister of Transport, etc.

  (2) Despite any other Act of Parliament, including the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act, the Minister of Transport and any person or entity who is prescribed by regulation for the purpose of subsection 6(4) must, within seven days after the day on which a flight prescribed by regulation departs or, if the flight is cancelled, within seven days after the day on which it is cancelled, destroy any document or record containing information about a person who is or was on board or was expected to be on board an aircraft for the flight that is provided to that Minister, person or entity under subsection 6(4), unless that information is reasonably required for the purposes of this Act.

• Marginal note:Information destruction — section 10 persons and entities

  (3) Despite any other Act of Parliament, including the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act, the Minister and any other person or entity referred to in section 10 must, within seven days after the day on which a flight prescribed by regulation departs or, if the flight is cancelled, within seven days after the day on which it is cancelled, destroy any document or record containing any of the following information about a person who is or was on board or was expected to be on board an aircraft for the flight that is disclosed to that Minister, person or entity under section 10, unless that information is reasonably required for the purposes of this Act:

  • (a) information that was originally provided to the Minister under subsection 6(2) or is deemed to have been provided to the Minister under subsection 6(3); and

  • (b) information that was originally provided to the Minister, the Minister of Transport or any other person or entity under subsection 6(4).