G-1.03 - Act respecting the governance and management of the information resources of public bodies and government enterprises

Section 12.10 Disposition versions

2021-06-10

12.10. Government digital data constitute a strategic information asset of the Government’s digital heritage. The data’s mobility and valorization within the Public Administration for administrative or public service purposes, taking into account their nature, characteristics and the access and protection rules which otherwise govern them, are of government-wide interest.

For the purposes of this Act,

(1)  “government digital data” means any information inscribed on a technological medium, including a digital medium, held by a public body, excluding

(a)  information under the control of a court of justice or another public body exercising adjudicative functions; and

(b)  any information or category of information determined by Government regulation, in particular information that may be covered by a restriction to the right of access under the Act respecting Access to documents held by public bodies and the Protection of personal information (chapter A-2.1);

(2)  “administrative or public service purposes” means any of the following purposes:

(a)  the optimization or simplification of services offered to citizens or enterprises;

(b)  support to the various missions of the State, to the provision by more than one public body of common services or to the carrying out of missions common to more than one public body;

(c)  the accomplishment of a mandate assigned under an Act or a government-wide initiative;

(d)  the planning, management, assessment or control of resources, programs or government services;

(e)  the production of information in support of the decision-making of a minister or the Government;

(f)  the verification of a person’s eligibility to a program or measure; or

(g)  research and development;

(3)  “mobility” means the communication or transmission of government digital data between public bodies for an administrative or public service purpose;

(4)  “valorization” means the development of government digital data within the Public Administration for an administrative or public service purpose, excluding sale of the data or any other form of alienation.

The first paragraph must not be interpreted as having the effect of changing public bodies’ obligations in respect of personal information that they hold or a person’s rights in respect of such information.

2021, c. 22, s. 7.