Practice Direction Guidelines for parties whose commercial or business information is at issue in an appeal Background Government institutions collect commercial or business information as part of their role in providing services to the public. For example, people give information about their business when they fill out an application for a program or service, such as registering a corporation or applying for a grant.
People also provide information to the government when they bid on a government tender.
People sometimes want access to government records that contain a business entity's scientific, technical, commercial, financial or labour relations information, or trade secret. If someone wants access to information held by an institution, he or she makes a request under the Act . The institution that receives the request then determines whether this information can be disclosed. There could be many reasons why someone might want access to your information held by an institution. Someone wants to see a copy of the agreement setting out the terms of the business deal.