Business ID agreements
8.1 (1) The business identification Minister may enter into agreements with another Minister of the Crown in right of Ontario or with an agency, board or commission established under an Act of Ontario requiring the other Minister’s Ministry, the agency, the board or the commission to, (a) assign business identifiers to businesses in accordance with the system of business identifiers established under this Act; (b) use the system of business identifiers for any other purpose. 2017, c. 20, Sched. 6, s. 64. Getting information from a person who is subject to an Act (2) If an agreement under this section is entered into in relation to any Act, the Minister responsible for the administration of that Act may require that a person subject to that Act provide prescribed business information to that Minister and update business information that the person previously provided to that Minister. 2017, c. 20, Sched. 6, s. 64. Getting information from a business that interacts with a Minister (3) If an agreement under this section that is not an agreement referred to in subsection (2) is entered into in relation to any ministerial function, and in the course of exercising that function the Minister responsible for that function receives information from a business, the Minister responsible for that function may require that the business provide prescribed business information to that Minister and update business information that the business previously provided to that Minister. 2017, c. 20, Sched. 6, s. 64. Centralizing information from a person who is subject to an Act (4) If an agreement under this section is entered into in relation to any Act, the Minister responsible for the administration of that Act shall disclose business information received by them under that Act, or received by them under subsection (2), to the business identification Minister. 2017, c. 20, Sched. 6, s. 64. Centralizing information from a business that interacts with a Minister (5) If an agreement under this section is entered into in relation to any ministerial function, the Minister responsible for that function shall disclose business information received by them in exercising that function, or received by them under subsection (3), to the business identification Minister. 2017, c. 20, Sched. 6, s. 64. Information sharing with other levels of government (6) The business identification Minister may disclose the business information they receive under this section to the Crown in right of Canada or to an agent of the Crown in right of Canada. 2017, c. 20, Sched. 6, s. 64. Same, information already received (7) After an agreement under this section is entered into, subsection (6) applies to business information that the business identification Minister received before the agreement was entered into as if they received it after the agreement was entered into. 2017, c. 20, Sched. 6, s. 64. Business ID Minister’s own Ministry (8) A directive from the business identification Minister to their own Ministry requiring the Ministry to do the things set out in clauses (1) (a) and (b) is deemed to be an agreement entered into under this section. 2017, c. 20, Sched. 6, s. 64. Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 2006, c. 33, Sched. C, s. 1 - 01/09/2007 2012, c. 8, Sched. 5, s. 3 - 10/09/2013 2017, c. 2, Sched. 12, s. 2 (2-6) - 22/03/2017 2017, c. 20, Sched. 6, s. 64 - 14/11/2017 Business ID and information sharing — certain corporations