S.M. 1986-87, c. 27
An Act to amend The Workers Compensation Act
(Assented to September 10, 1986)
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
Subsecs. 84(1.1) to (1.5) added.
The Workers Compensation Act, being chapter W200 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba, is amended by adding immediately after subsection 84(1) thereof, the following subsections:
Notwithstanding subsection (1), where the Lieutenant Governor in Council, pursuant to section 100, appoints persons to a committee to advise the minister, the committee, if it considers it essential for advising the minister on matters relating to The Workers Compensation Act, may receive and examine any file held by the board and every officer of the board and every employee of the board
(a) shall, when requested to do so, make any such file available to the committee; and
(b) may divulge to the committee any information that the officer or employee is prohibited from divulging by subsection (1).
Files to remain on board premises.
The board, when requested under subsection (1.1) to make files available to the committee, shall provide suitable office space to the committee at the offices of the board for the examination of the files and the committee may make copies of a document on any such file and may remove such copies from the offices of the board.
A committee appointed under section 100, in making a report to the minister, may use any information obtained from files made available to it under subsection (1.1) but, in using the information, the committee shall not divulge the information in such a manner that an individual is directly identifiable.
Except to such extent as may be necessary in the report to the minister, every member of a committee appointed under section 100 and every person employed by, or otherwise engaged in the work of, the committee shall maintain secrecy in respect of all matters that come to their knowledge as a result of receiving and examining files pursuant to this section.
A committee appointed pursuant to section 100 has such of the powers of commissioners appointed under Part V of The Manitoba Evidence Act as the Lieutenant Governor in Council directs and has the like protection and privileges as commissioners so appointed.
This Act comes into force on the day it receives the royal assent.