Protocols
 5. (1) A removal-from-sport protocol required under subsection 4 (1) of the Act must satisfy the following requirements in addition to those set out in that subsection: 1. The protocol must require a designated person to remove an athlete from further training, practice or competition if the sport organization becomes aware that the athlete has sustained a concussion or is suspected of having sustained a concussion, regardless of whether or not the concussion was sustained or is suspected of having been sustained during a sport activity associated with the sport organization. 2. If an athlete is suspected of having a sustained a concussion, the protocol must require a designated person to call 9-1-1 if, in the designated person’s opinion, doing so is necessary. 3. The protocol must require the sport organization to make and keep records of all incidences where an athlete is removed from further training, practice or competition because they are suspected of having sustained a concussion. 4. When a designated person informs an athlete or, if the athlete is under 18 years of age, the athlete’s parent or guardian that the athlete has been removed from further training, practice or competition, the protocol must require a designated person to advise the athlete or the parent or guardian that the athlete is required to undergo a medical assessment by a physician or a nurse practitioner before the athlete will be permitted to return to training, practice or competition in accordance with the sport organization’s return-to-sport protocol. 5. The protocol must require a designated person to ensure that the athlete or, if the athlete is under 18 years of age, the athlete’s parent or guardian receives the sport organization’s removal-from-sport and return-to-sport protocol as soon as practicable after the athlete is removed from further practice, training or competition. (2) A return-to-sport protocol required under subsection 4 (2) of the Act must satisfy the following requirements in addition to those set out in that subsection: 1. The protocol may permit an athlete to return to training, practice or competition if the athlete or, if the athlete is under 18 years of age, the athlete’s parent or guardian provides confirmation to the designated person that the athlete, i. has undergone a medical assessment by a physician or nurse practitioner and has not been diagnosed as having a concussion, and ii. has been medically cleared to return to training, practice or competition by the physician or nurse practitioner. 2. The protocol must require an athlete who is diagnosed by a physician or nurse practitioner as having a concussion to proceed through the graduated return-to-sport steps that are set out in the protocol. 3. The graduated return-to-sport steps may set out activities specific to the sport as well as intended outcomes of the activities that the athlete must successfully complete before moving on to the next step, but the protocol must not permit an athlete to move on to unrestricted practice, training or competition unless he or she or, if the athlete is under 18 years of age, the athlete’s parent or guardian provides a confirmation of medical clearance by a physician or nurse practitioner to a designated person. 4. The protocol must not permit an athlete to return to training, practice or competition through the graduated return-to-sport steps unless the athlete, or if the athlete is under 18 years of age, the athlete’s parent or guardian has shared the medical advice or recommendations they received with a designated person, if any. 5. The protocol must require a designated person to inform an athlete who has been diagnosed as having a concussion or, if the athlete is under 18 years of age, the athlete’s parent or guardian of the importance of disclosing the diagnosis to any other sport organization with which the athlete is registered or school that the athlete attends. 6. The protocol must require the sport organization to make a record of the athlete’s progression through the graduated return-to-sport steps up until the athlete or, if the athlete is under 18 years of age, the athlete’s parent or guardian has provided a confirmation of medical clearance by a physician or nurse practitioner to a designated person. (3) A designated person may rely on the information received from an athlete or, if the athlete is under 18 years of age, from the athlete’s parent or guardian in carrying out the designated person’s responsibilities under a sport organization’s return-to-sport protocol. (4) The following rules apply with respect to personal information collected in the course of a sport organization carrying out its removal-from-sport and return-to-sport protocols: 1. A sport organization must limit the collection, use and disclosure of personal information to that which is reasonably necessary for the purpose of carrying out the removal-from-sport and return-to-sport protocols. 2. A sport organization shall limit access to such personal information to only those individuals who require it for the purpose of fulfilling their duties or obligations under the Act. 3. The sport organization shall retain, disclose and dispose of such personal information in a secure manner. 4. The sport organization shall create a retention policy for personal information. (5) The following are prescribed persons for the purpose of subsection 4 (3) of the Act: 1. A designated person. 2. An athlete who has been removed from further training, practice or competition in accordance with the sport organization’s removal-from-sport protocol or, if the athlete who has been removed is under 18 years of age, the athlete’s parent or guardian. (6) In circumstances where an athlete who is registered with a sports organization attends a competition held by another sport organization, the removal-from-sport protocol and return-to-sport protocol established by the sport organization holding the competition applies in respect of the athlete while they are participating in the competition and not the protocols of the other sport organization. (7) For the purposes of subsection (4), “personal information” has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.