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Registration Practices Assessment Guide — For Health Regulatory Colleges
- Introduction
- Specific Duties:
- General Duty
- Appendix
7. Specific Duty — Access to Records
Legislation: RHPA, Schedule 2, s. 16
(1) The Registrar shall give an applicant for registration, at his or her request, all the information and a copy of each document the College has that is relevant to the application.
Exception
(2) The Registrar may refuse to give an applicant anything that may, in the Registrar’s opinion, jeopardize the safety of any person.
Does the regulatory body demonstrate the following practices?
- Subject to limitations indicated in legislation, applicants have access to their records. Records include all the documents that relate to the application. [Fairness, Transparency]
Documents may include, but are not limited to, the following: documents provided by the applicant; documents that describe the regulatory body’s rationale for its decision; documents related to an applicant’s assessment of qualifications, such as exam results or credential assessment results; and documents related to accommodation requests, review requests, and appeals.