C-26, r. 67.2 - Code of ethics of guidance counsellors

Section 31 Disposition versions

2018-09-13

31. Guidance counsellors must respond promptly, at the latest within 30 days of its receipt, to any request made by a client to have information that is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, outdated or unjustified corrected or deleted in any document concerning the client. In addition, guidance counsellors must notify the client of the client’s right to make written comments and file them in the record.

Guidance counsellors must give the client, free of charge, a duly dated copy of the document or part of the document filed in the record so that the client may verify that the information has been corrected or deleted or, as applicable, give the client an attestation stating that the client’s written comments have been filed in the record.

Guidance counsellors must forward a copy, free of charge, of the corrected information or an attestation stating that the information has been deleted or, as applicable, that the written comments have been filed in the record, to every person from whom guidance counsellors received the information that was the subject of the correction, deletion or comments, and to every person to whom the information was communicated.

O.C. 1169-2018, s. 31.

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In force: 2018-09-13

31. Guidance counsellors must respond promptly, at the latest within 30 days of its receipt, to any request made by a client to have information that is inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, outdated or unjustified corrected or deleted in any document concerning the client. In addition, guidance counsellors must notify the client of the client’s right to make written comments and file them in the record.

Guidance counsellors must give the client, free of charge, a duly dated copy of the document or part of the document filed in the record so that the client may verify that the information has been corrected or deleted or, as applicable, give the client an attestation stating that the client’s written comments have been filed in the record.

Guidance counsellors must forward a copy, free of charge, of the corrected information or an attestation stating that the information has been deleted or, as applicable, that the written comments have been filed in the record, to every person from whom guidance counsellors received the information that was the subject of the correction, deletion or comments, and to every person to whom the information was communicated.

O.C. 1169-2018, s. 31.