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53: Other reasons for refusing access to personal information
or “When your request for personal information can be denied”
You could also call this:

“Agencies can set rules for accessing your information instead of denying it completely”

If an agency has a good reason to refuse access to your personal information under sections 49 to 53, they can choose to give you access instead, but with some conditions. These conditions can be about how you use the information or who you can share it with. For example, they might say you can only use the information for a specific purpose or that you can’t tell anyone else about it. This gives the agency a way to let you see your information while still protecting it.

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Part 4 Access to and correction of personal information
Access to personal information

54Agency may impose conditions instead of refusing access to personal information

  1. This section applies if an agency has good reason under any of sections 49 to 53 to refuse access to any personal information requested.

  2. Instead of refusing access to the personal information requested, the agency may grant access to the information, but may impose conditions relating to either or both of the following:

  3. the requestor’s use of the information:
    1. the requestor’s disclosure of the information to any other person.