22. A permit holder or a home childcare provider shall keep and preserve, in accordance with the regulations, a registration card and an attendance card for each child and must, at the request of the child’s parent, give written or verbal communication of the card to the parent and allow, in accordance with the regulations, the parent to examine and copy the card.
Subject to the provisions of sections 34.1 and 35 or where a home childcare provider or a permit holder is required, under this Act or the regulations, to transmit information recorded on the attendance card is necessary for obtaining a grant under section 41.6, the information referred to in the first paragraph is confidential and no person may give or receive a written or verbal communication of it or otherwise have access to it, even for the purposes of an inquiry, except with the express authorization of the parent of the child concerned, or upon the order of a tribunal.
Nevertheless, the Minister may, for the purposes of an inquiry, studies or research, examine the cards referred to in the first paragraph and make copies of them, provided that the anonymity of the persons concerned is preserved.
1979, c. 85, s. 22; 1988, c. 84, s. 677; 1996, c. 16, s. 24; 1997, c. 58, s. 95, s. 134.