Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I move, seconded by the Honourable Member for Nahendeh, that Bill 4, Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Statutes Amendment Act, be read for the second time.

Mr. Speaker, this bill amends ten statutes to address the paramountcy of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, over other statutes that contain provisions that are inconsistent, or in conflict with it, as of December 31, 1999. The bill also amends the Archives Act and the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

The Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act is amended to clarify that permitted public access to records in a registry includes access to original records.

The Archives Act is amended to

- provide a new definition of government body consistent with the definition of public body in the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act;

- clarify that a notice of the destruction of public records may be general in nature;

- increase the amount of the penalty for an offence under the act; and

- provide the Commissioner with the regulation-making authority to designate certain bodies as government bodies.

The Consumer Protection Act is amended to ensure that the provisions that limit access and provide for the security of information collected during investigations under the act continue to apply despite the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

The Disease Registries Act is amended to ensure that the provisions for access to, accountability for, and control of records contained in the reportable disease registry continue to apply despite the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

The Education Act, is amended to ensure that the following prevail despite the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act;

- provisions dealing with conditions of access to and the process for the release of information from a student record;

- specific and detailed provisions for the correction of student records;

- provisions dealing with the requirement that disclosures by a student to a school counselor be kept strictly confidential from the student's parents, teachers and others, as well as from the student himself or herself where necessary; provisions setting out the circumstances when a school counselor's notes or information contained in the notes may be disclosed and requiring that written notice of any disclosure be given to the student where reasonably possible.

The Environmental Rights Act is amended to repeal the access to information provisions contained in section 3.

The Insurance Act is amended to ensure that the provisions dealing with access to information about an insured or about a party to an application under the act continues to apply despite the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

The Labour Standards Act is amended to ensure that the provision dealing with the disclosure of personal information continues to apply despite the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

The Motor Vehicles Act is amended to ensure that the specific access to information and protection of privacy provisions contained in the act continue to apply despite the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and to

- allow additional officials or organizations to access limited information from records contained in the motor vehicle registry, either with or without a fee;

- allow public or private agencies to access information from records contained in the motor vehicle registry, except personal information, for research purposes for a fee; and

- clarify that the Young Offenders Act, and the Young Offenders Act (Canada), govern the control and release of reports of convictions in respect of young persons.

The Payroll Tax Act, 1993 is amended to ensure that the conditions of disclosure of information collected pursuant to the Act continue to apply despite the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

The Securities Act is amended to ensure that the specific circumstances of an investigation conducted under the act and the protection of the information collected as a result continue to apply despite the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

The Tobacco Tax Act is amended to ensure that the conditions of disclosure of information collected pursuant to the act continue to apply despite the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker.