Minister to have access to information
17 Minister to have access to information
Except as stated in section 18, the Minister is entitled to have information in the Corporation’s possession and, if the information is in or on a document, to have, and make and retain copies of, that document.
For the purposes of subsection (1), the Minister may —
request the Corporation to provide information to the Minister;
request the Corporation to give the Minister access to information; and
for the purposes of paragraph (b), make use of the Corporation’s staff to obtain the information and provide it to the Minister.
The Corporation is to comply with a request under subsection (2) and make its staff and facilities available to the Minister for the purposes of paragraph (c) of that subsection.
In this section —
document includes any tape, disc or other device or medium on which information is recorded or stored;
information means information specified, or of a description specified, by the Minister that relates to the Corporation’s functions.
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