Regulations Repealing the Protection of Personal Information Regulations (Miscellaneous Program): SOR/2020-210
Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 154, Number 21
Registration
SOR/2020-210 September 28, 2020
PRIVACY ACT
P.C. 2020-678 September 25, 2020
Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the President of the Treasury Board, pursuant to paragraphs 77(1)(h), (i), (m) and (n) of the Privacy Act footnote a, makes the annexed Regulations Repealing the Protection of Personal Information Regulations (Miscellaneous Program).
Regulations Repealing the Protection of Personal Information Regulations (Miscellaneous Program)
Repeal
1 The Protection of Personal Information Regulations footnote 1 are repealed.
Coming into Force
2 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.
REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS STATEMENT
(This statement is not part of the Regulations.)
Issues
A review of the Protection of Personal Information Regulations (the Regulations) conducted by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat in 2019 found that all 31 sections of the Regulations have been duplicated in the Privacy Act and the Privacy Regulations.
Objective
The amendment has the following objectives:
- to repeal spent regulatory provisions that have no current application; and
- to eliminate an unnecessary duplication of text.
Description and rationale
The Regulations have been repealed.
Repealing these spent Regulations contributes to the modernization of regulations by ensuring that the regulated community is not required to devote resources to considering a regulation that is spent and is not misled by a regulation that is no longer applicable. Repealing these Regulations removes obsolete provisions and duplicate sections of text in the suite of regulations.
There are no legal, financial or reputational risks or impacts to repealing the Regulations, as they are currently not in use and have been entirely superseded by the Privacy Act and the Privacy Regulations.
One-for-one rule and small business lens
The one-for-one rule applies since a regulatory title is removed, and the Regulations are considered a title out.
Analysis under the small business lens determined that the Regulations will not impact small businesses in Canada.
Contact
Ruth Naylor
Executive Director
Information and Privacy Policy Division
Office of the Chief Information Officer
Telephone: 613‑369‑9647
Email: Ruth.Naylor@tbs-sct.gc.ca