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Version of section 658 from 2013-09-02 to 2024-03-06:


Marginal note:Confidential information

  •  (1) Subject to subsection (2), information regarding the business or affairs of a bank, authorized foreign bank or external complaints body or regarding persons dealing with any of them that is obtained by the Commissioner or by any person acting under the Commissioner’s direction, in the course of the exercise or performance of powers, duties and functions referred to in subsection 5(1) of the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada Act, and any information prepared from that information, is confidential and shall be treated accordingly.

  • Marginal note:Disclosure permitted

    (2) If the Commissioner is satisfied that the information will be treated as confidential by the agency, body or person to whom it is disclosed, subsection (1) does not prevent the Commissioner from disclosing it

    • (a) to any government agency or body that regulates or supervises financial institutions, for purposes related to that regulation or supervision;

    • (b) to any other agency or body that regulates or supervises financial institutions, for purposes related to that regulation or supervision;

    • (c) to the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, for purposes related to its operation; and

    • (d) to the Deputy Minister of Finance or any officer of the Department of Finance authorized in writing by the Deputy Minister of Finance or to the Governor of the Bank of Canada or any officer of the Bank of Canada authorized in writing by the Governor of the Bank of Canada, for the purposes of policy analysis related to the regulation of financial institutions.

  • 1999, c. 28, s. 59
  • 2001, c. 9, s. 183
  • 2010, c. 25, s. 152

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