The public registry of compliance documents required under the
Conflict of Interest Act contains the summary statements of ministers, parliamentary secretaries and other reporting public office holders, as well as their public declarations relating to gifts or other advantages, travel, certain assets and liabilities, outside activities and other declarations as necessary.
Within 60 days of their appointment, reporting public office holders must file with the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner a Confidential Report describing their assets, liabilities, income and activities. A Summary Statement is prepared and placed in the public registry. Reporting public office holders are not required to sign or make public a new Summary Statement every year. They are only required to review annually the information they disclosed and, if there are any changes, to inform the Commissioner. Unless a change also modifies the information that has been made public, the Summary Statement remains the same and continues to be valid, regardless of the date on which it was signed.
Reporting public office holders' information can be accessed in the registry throughout their time in public office. It remains in the registry until they have completed their one- or two-year cooling-off period under the Act's post-employment provisions, then is no longer available from the Office. The date a reporting public office holder started post-employment is noted in the registry.
