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6.--(1) A head may refuse to disclose a record,

(a) that contains a draft of a by-law or a draft of a private bill; or

(b) that reveals the substance of deliberations of a meeting of a council, board, commission or other body or a committee of one of them if a statute authorizes holding that meeting in the absence of the public.

Exception

(2) Despite subsection (1), a head shall not refuse under subsection (1) to disclose a record if,

(a) in the case of a record under clause (1) (a), the draft has been considered in a meeting open to the public;

(b) in the case of a record under clause (1) (b), the subject-matter of the deliberations has been considered in a meeting open to the public; or

(c) the record is more than twenty years old. R.S.O. 1990, c. M.56, s. 6.


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