R-22.1 - Act respecting health and social services information

Section 8 Disposition versions

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8. A person may refuse to allow either current or future information concerning him or her to be accessible to the following persons from the time the information becomes held by a body:

(1)  the person’s spouse or close relative, if the access sought is in connection with a grieving process;

(2)  the person’s spouse, direct ascendant or direct descendant, in the case of information related to the cause of the person’s death;

(3)  a researcher, if the access sought is for the purpose of soliciting the person’s participation in a research project; and

(4)  a researcher who is not attached to a body referred to in Schedule I, to a public institution or to a private institution under agreement that operates a hospital centre.

The refusal provided for in subparagraph 4 of the first paragraph may cover one or more pieces of information and may pertain to one or more research themes or categories of research activities.

For the purposes of this Act, a researcher is attached to a body referred to in Schedule I, to a public institution or to a private institution under agreement that operates a hospital centre if the researcher practices his or her profession in a centre operated by such an institution or if he or she conducts research on behalf of such an institution or body under a contract of employment or a contract for services.

2023, c. 5, s. 8.