Designating the Minister of Justice and the President of the Treasury Board as Ministers for Purposes of Certain Sections of the Act

SI/83-108

Registration 22 June, 1983

ACCESS TO INFORMATION ACT

Designating the Minister of Justice and the President of the Treasury Board as Ministers for Purposes of Certain Sections of the Act

P.C. 1983-1583 2 June, 1983

His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, pursuant to the definition "designated Minister" in section 3 of the Access to Information Act, is pleased hereby

(a) to revoke Order in Council P.C. 1983-431 of 17th February, 1983*;

(b) to designate the Minister of Justice, a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, to act as the Minister for the purposes of paragraph (b) of the definition "head" in section 3, subsection 4(2), paragraphs 77(1)(f) and (g) and subsection 77(2) of the Act; and

(c) to designate the President of the Treasury Board, a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada, to act as the Minister for all other purposes of the Act.

* SI/83-48, 1983 Canada Gazette Part II, p. 1036