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Section 23 - Local public body confidences

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23(1) The head of a local public body may refuse to disclose information to an applicant if the disclosure could reasonably be expected to reveal

(a) a draft of a resolution, bylaw or other legal instrument by which the local public body acts, or

(b) the substance of deliberations of a meeting of its elected officials or of its governing body or a committee of its governing body, if an Act or a regulation under this Act authorizes the holding of that meeting in the absence of the public.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply if

(a) the draft of the resolution, bylaw or other legal instrument or the subject-matter of the deliberation has been considered in a meeting open to the public, or

(b) the information referred to in that subsection is in a record that has been in existence for 15 years or more.

1994 cF-18.5 s22

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