Government and Administration Organisation Act
(GAOA)

¹ Fed­er­al bod­ies may dis­close leg­al en­tit­ies’ data if this is per­mit­ted by law.

² They may only dis­close sens­it­ive leg­al en­tit­ies’ data if a form­al act of par­lia­ment so provides.

³ They may dis­close leg­al en­tit­ies’ data in an in­di­vidu­al case in derog­a­tion from para­graphs 1 and 2 if any one of the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments is met:

a.

The dis­clos­ure of data is es­sen­tial for the fed­er­al body or for the re­cip­i­ent in or­der to ful­fil a stat­utory task.

b.

The leg­al en­tity con­cerned has con­sen­ted to dis­clos­ure.

c.

The re­cip­i­ent cred­ibly demon­strates that the leg­al en­tity con­cerned re­fuses con­sent or ob­jects to dis­clos­ure in or­der to pre­vent the re­cip­i­ent from en­for­cing leg­al claims or from safe­guard­ing oth­er le­git­im­ate in­terests; the leg­al en­tity con­cerned shall be giv­en the op­por­tun­ity to state its po­s­i­tion in ad­vance, un­less this is im­possible or re­quires dis­pro­por­tion­ate ef­fort.

⁴ They may also dis­close leg­al en­tit­ies’ data when provid­ing the pub­lic with of­fi­cial in­form­a­tion or in ac­cord­ance with the Free­dom of In­form­a­tion Act of 17 Decem­ber 2004⁸⁰, provided:

a.

the data are con­nec­ted with the ful­fil­ment of pub­lic tasks; and

b.

there is an over­rid­ing pub­lic in­terest in dis­clos­ure.

⁵ They may make leg­al en­tit­ies’ data gen­er­ally ac­cess­ible us­ing auto­mated in­form­a­tion and com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vices if the pub­lic­a­tion of such data is per­mit­ted by law or if they dis­close the data on the basis of para­graph 4. If there is no longer a pub­lic in­terest in mak­ing the data gen­er­ally ac­cess­ible, the data con­cerned shall be de­leted from the auto­mated in­form­a­tion and com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice.

⁶ The fed­er­al bod­ies shall re­fuse to per­mit, or shall re­strict or im­pose con­di­tions on dis­clos­ure if:

a.

es­sen­tial pub­lic in­terests or the clearly le­git­im­ate in­terests of the leg­al en­tity con­cerned so re­quire; or

b.

stat­utory con­fid­en­ti­al­ity du­ties or spe­cif­ic reg­u­la­tions on the pro­tec­tion of leg­al en­tit­ies’ data so re­quire.