19.Where more than one year has elapsed since the person or group whose interests would be concerned by the intervention had knowledge of the facts on which the intervention is based, the Public Protector shall refuse to intervene, unless he considers that the circumstances brought forward by the person or group are exceptional.
The Public Protector shall also terminate an intervention or refuse to intervene where any remedy pursued before the Supreme Court of Canada or any court referred to in section 1 of the Courts of Justice Act (chapter T-16), by the person or group whose interests are concerned by the intervention, pertains to the facts on which the intervention is based.
19.Whenever he refuses to make an investigation upon the application of a person, the Public Protector shall notify such person of his refusal, give him the reasons therefor and indicate to him what recourses, if any, he may exercise.