Legislation

• FOIP Act and Regulation
• The FOIP Act and Regulation provided on this web site, as well as current Ministerial regulations on this site, are maintained by Access, Privacy and Security of Service Alberta and are not official.
• They are current to date.
• They are in searchable HTML format with internal links.
• The FOIP Regulation includes the Schedule of public bodies subject to the Act. See Ministerial Regulations for additional designations of public bodies. An unofficial alphabetical index is also provided; this lists all agencies, boards, commissions and other entities that have been designated as public bodies by a regulation.

• Recent and Unproclaimed Amendments
• Sets out the latest changes to the FOIP Act and Regulation, and what changes to expect in the future.
• Lists recent amendments, amendments not yet in force, and proposed (tabled) amendments.
• Provides printable inserts of recent amendments to update your consolidation of the FOIP Act and Regulation (an up-to-date consolidation containing all recent amendments is available from the Alberta Queen's Printer).  

• Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act: Words and Phrases Defined or Considered
• Definitions of words and phrases used in the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act and Regulation. All definitions in the Act and Regulation, as amended up to September 30, 2006, are included.

• Legislation Paramount over the FOIP Act (pdf)
• Lists those Acts and Regulations which have provisions that prevail despite the FOIP Act.

• Concordance and Legislative History of the FOIP Act (pdf)
• Tracks changes to the FOIP Act since it received Royal Assent.
• Allows users to find out whether provisions interpreted in Commissioner's Orders have been renumbered or amended since an Order was issued.

• Review of the FOIP Act (2001-2)
• Final Report of the Select Special Review Committee (2002). (pdf)
• For other documents relating to this review and prior reviews, see the Site Archive.

• Site Archive
• Includes historical information relating to the development of the FOIP Act, such as the consultation papers and reports of Select Special Committees, and documents created in preparation for the enactment of the Revised Statutes of Alberta 2000.

• Resources available from the Alberta Queen's Printer
• Annotated FOIP Act
  • Published by the Alberta Queen's Printer, this annotation provides expert commentary on the FOIP Act and Regulation.
  • Order form (pdf)
• Consolidated version of the FOIP Act and Regulation
  • Alberta's Queen's Printer is the official source for copies of Alberta's legislation, including the FOIP Act and the FOIP Regulation.
  • Order form (pdf)