Canada Pension Plan Regulations

51 For the purposes of section 87 of the Act, the following are prescribed as the conditions subject to which any information specified in that section respecting the age of any applicant or beneficiary or the applicant’s or beneficiary’s spouse, former spouse, common-law partner or former common-law partner is obtainable from Statistics Canada on request and for the purpose specified in that section:

• (a) the request to Statistics Canada must

  • (i) be made in a form prescribed by the Chief Statistician,

  • (ii) bear the signed consent of the applicant, beneficiary, spouse, former spouse, common-law partner or former common-law partner or of the person or agency that made the application on their behalf or, where there is no such person or agency, any other person or agency who would have been entitled to make the application on their behalf, and

  • (iii) provide such information as may be necessary to enable a proper search to be made of the census records for the purpose of obtaining the information requested; and

• (b) information obtained under section 87 of the Act must not be disclosed to any person other than an officer, clerk or employee of the Department of Employment and Social Development or other than as required by an agreement entered into under section 105 of the Act.