Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a bit of a difficult question to answer without a specific example of what act you would be referring to. Most of the exceptions to disclosure contained within this legislation are discretionary. In other words, the head of a public body has the discretion whether to release the record or not.
Some of the exceptions to disclosure here are mandatory, for example, personal information of a third party. There's a statement saying you can't disclose personal information if it's going to invade somebody else's privacy. But even that mandatory caveat from disclosure is accepted if the disclosure of that information is authorized by another act of this Legislature.
So it depends on the type of information you would be looking for. I'm not sure if that answers your question. Most of the information is discretionary so it would be difficult for somebody to say you're allowed to have it in another act, and yet there's a discretionary right here. The information that is mandatory, that you cannot disclose, for example, personal information, the exception to that disclosure is if that information is authorized by another act.
I think what we would need is an example in an act saying you're allowed to have information in this act and you're not allowed to have it under the access bill, so that we could compare the two to see if it falls into the categories within the act as either a mandatory or discretionary exception to disclosure.