{"id":257,"date":"2021-05-25T11:01:02","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2021-05-25T11:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T11:01:02","slug":"pipa-british-columbia-part-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"PIPA-British Columbia, Part-8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>General Provisions (Part 12)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>S. 54 of the act protects the employees of the organization from dismissal\/ suspension\/demotion harassment etc. if the organization denies the benefit to the employee because he\/she, acting in good faith and on reasonable belief, approached the Commissioner against the Organization for contravening or to contravene under the act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"317\" height=\"159\" src=\"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/download-1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/download-1-1.png 317w, https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/download-1-1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><figcaption>Picture Credit- https:\/\/www.leg.bc.ca<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Offences &amp; Penalties (S.56)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Under this section if any organization or person commits an offence of &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol><li>using deception or coercion to collect the Personal information<\/li><li>dispose off the personal information in order to avoid the right to request for access<\/li><li>Obstructs the commissioner or any one delegated by him\/her in his\/her duties or powers<\/li><li>makes false statement or misleads or attempt to mislead the Commissioner<\/li><li>fails to comply with the order passed by the Commissioner<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>If the commission of above mentioned offences is <strong>committed by the Person <\/strong>then the fine is <strong>$10,000<\/strong> and if the <strong>Organization commits<\/strong> the same then the fine is <strong>$100,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Review of Act<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The act came into force from 1st January 2004 and S.59 (2) mandates a <strong>comprehensive review of the act once in every 6 years<\/strong> by a special committee of the legislative assembly.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Provisions (Part 12) S. 54 of the act protects the employees of the organization from dismissal\/ suspension\/demotion harassment etc. if the organization denies the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldprivacylaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}