Security of Canada Information Disclosure Act

Marginal note:Obligation — disclosing institution

• 9 (1) Every Government of Canada institution that discloses information under this Act must prepare and keep records that set out

  • (a) a description of the information;

  • (b) the name of the individual who authorized its disclosure;

  • (c) the name of the recipient Government of Canada institution;

  • (d) the date on which it was disclosed;

  • (e) a description of the information that was relied on to satisfy the disclosing institution that the disclosure was authorized under this Act; and

  • (f) any other information specified by the regulations.

• Marginal note:Obligation — recipient institution

  (2) Every Government of Canada institution that receives information under this Act must prepare and keep records that set out

  • (a) a description of the information;

  • (b) the name of the institution that disclosed it;

  • (c) the name or position of the head of the recipient institution — or of the person designated by the head — who received the information;

  • (d) the date on which it was received by the recipient institution;

  • (e) whether the information has been destroyed or returned under subsection 5.1(1);

  • (f) if the information has been destroyed under subsection 5.1(1), the date on which it was destroyed;

  • (g) if the information was returned under subsection 5.1(1) to the institution that disclosed it, the date on which it was returned; and

  • (h) any other information specified by the regulations.

• Marginal note:Copy to National Security and Intelligence Review Agency

  (3) Within 30 days after the end of each calendar year, every Government of Canada institution that disclosed information under section 5 during the year and every Government of Canada institution that received such information must provide the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency with a copy of every record it prepared under subsection (1) or (2), as the case may be, with respect to the information.