84. A public body shall release personal information to the person entitled to receive it by allowing him to examine the document on the premises during regular working hours or by remote access and to obtain a copy thereof.
At the request of the applicant, personal information that is kept in computerized form must be released in the form of a written and intelligible transcript.
Unless doing so raises serious practical difficulties, computerized personal information collected from the applicant, and not created or inferred using personal information concerning him, must, at his request, be released to him in a structured, commonly used technological format. The information must also be released, at the applicant’s request, to any person or body authorized by law to collect such information.
If the applicant is a handicapped person, reasonable accommodation must be provided on request to enable the applicant to exercise the right of access provided for in this division. For that purpose, the public body must take into account the policy established under section 26.5 of the Act to secure handicapped persons in the exercise of their rights with a view to achieving social, school and workplace integration (chapter E-20.1).
1982, c. 30, s. 84; 1990, c. 57, s. 22; 2001, c. 32, s. 85; 2006, c. 22, s. 54; 2021, c. 252021, c. 25, s. 301.