Fees and Fee Estimates

Persons making a request for access to information or correction of personal information are required by the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act to pay fees for the activities required to process their request, as shown below.  Payment should be made by cheque or money order, payable to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.  If a person is required to pay a fee for access to a record, UOIT may require the person to do so before giving the person access to the record.  

For further information, please refer to the Act at:
www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/statutes/english/elaws_statutes_90f31_e.htm

Fees for Access to General Information
Application Fee	$5.00
Photocopies and computer printouts	$0.20 per page
Disks	$10.00 per disk
Manually searching for a record	$7.50 for each 15 minutes ($30 per hour) spent by any person
Preparing a record for disclosure, including  severing part of record	$7.50 for each 15 minutes ($30 per hour) spent by any person
Developing a computer program or other method  of producing a record from a machine readable record	$15.00 for each 15 minutes ($60 per hour) spent by any person
Costs, including computer costs, incurred to locate, retrieve, process and copy record(s) as specified in an invoice received by UOIT	Actual costs
Fees for Access to Personal Information
Application fee	$5.00
Photocopies and computer printouts	$0.20 per page
Disks	$10.00 per disk
Developing a computer program or other method of producing a record from a machine-readable record	$15.00 for each 15 minutes ($60 per hour) spent by any person
Costs, including computer costs, incurred to locate, retrieve, process and copy record(s) as specified in an invoice received by UOIT	Actual costs

Fee Deposit:   UOIT may require requester to pay 50% of the total estimated fee if it is $100.00 or more
Fee Refund:    UOIT will refund any fee deposit paid that is subsequently waived