Acts and Regulations

P-7.05 - Personal Health Information Privacy and Access Act

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Official languages
2016, c.7, s.1
9(1)If an individual makes a request under section 7 and the individual’s record containing personal health information is not available in his or her official language of choice, a custodian to whom the Official Languages Act applies shall provide the individual with access to a physician or other health care provider to assist the individual in interpreting the record.
9(2)If a custodian to whom the Official Languages Act applies considers it appropriate, the custodian may translate or cause to be translated the relevant provisions of an individual’s record containing personal health information for the purpose of a unilingual physician treating the individual if the record is in an official language the physician cannot understand.
2016, c.7, s.2
Application of the Official Languages Act
9A custodian to whom the Official Languages Act applies shall, if an individual’s record containing personal health information is not available in the individual’s official language of choice, accommodate the individual’s official language needs by
(a) providing the individual with access to a physician or other health care provider to assist the individual in interpreting his or her record, or
(b) translating or causing to be translated the relevant provisions of the individual’s record for the purpose of a unilingual physician treating the individual if the record is in an official language the physician cannot understand.
Application of the Official Languages Act
9A custodian to whom the Official Languages Act applies shall, if an individual’s record containing personal health information is not available in the individual’s official language of choice, accommodate the individual’s official language needs by
(a) providing the individual with access to a physician or other health care provider to assist the individual in interpreting his or her record, or
(b) translating or causing to be translated the relevant provisions of the individual’s record for the purpose of a unilingual physician treating the individual if the record is in an official language the physician cannot understand.
Application of the Official Languages Act
9A custodian to whom the Official Languages Act applies shall, if an individual’s record containing personal health information is not available in the individual’s official language of choice, accommodate the individual’s official language needs by
(a) providing the individual with access to a physician or other health care provider to assist the individual in interpreting his or her record, or
(b) translating or causing to be translated the relevant provisions of the individual’s record for the purpose of a unilingual physician treating the individual if the record is in an official language the physician cannot understand.