Federal access to information and privacy legislation annotated

Please see the attached PDF file below for a detailed listing of the table of contents

2025 edition

Volume 1

Part I. Access to information legislation

• Chapter 1 - Annotated Access to Information Act
• Chapter 2 - Extension and designation orders under the Access to Information Act
• Chapter 3 - Annotated Access to Information Regulations
• Chapter 4 - Practice, precedents and procedure

Volume 2

Part II. Privacy Legislation

• Chapter 5 - Prologue on privacy legislation
• Chapter 6 - Annotated Privacy Act
• Chapter 7 - Extension, designation and exempt orders
• Chapter 8 - Annotated Privacy Act Regulations
• Chapter 9 - Annotated Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
• Chapter 10 - Regulations and orders respecting Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act
• Chapter 11 - Directives, policies and guidelines applicable to the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act

Part III. Reference material

• Chapter 12 - Reference material

Part IV. Background

• Chapter 13 - Historical discussion papers
• Chapter 14 - Parliament debates and creation of the Access to Information Act
• Chapter 15 - Parliament debates and operation of the Access to Information Act

Appendices

• Tables of concordance
• Words and phrases
• Table of cases