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Paragraph 46
 

Information from Minister of Citizenship and Immigration


Despite subparagraph 46(1)(a)(ii), for the purpose of assisting the Chief Electoral Officer in updating the Register of Electors, including by deleting the name of a person who is not an elector, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration may, at the request of the Chief Electoral Officer in writing, provide the Chief Electoral Officer with any of the following information, in relation to a person, that is contained in databases maintained by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration that relate to permanent residents and foreign nationals as those terms are defined in subsection 2(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and with the date when the information referred to in paragraph (d) was included or updated in those databases:



(a) his or her surname and given names;
(b) his or her gender;
(c) his or her date of birth;
(d) his or her addresses; and
(e) any unique identifier that that Minister has assigned to him or her under that Act.