An amendment to the Real Property Assessment Act Regulations in Prince Edward Island updates the content, access, and disclosure framework governing property assessment information and modernizes terminology and administrative processes.

It expands the required data fields in assessment records to include acreage, civic location and address of assessed property, municipal or fire district codes, and detailed breakdown of taxable and market assessments across commercial, non-commercial, residential, farm assessment, and farm use categories.

Access provisions are strengthened by requiring municipalities to provide assessment lists to chief administrative officers, and where public release is not made locally, electronic versions must be made available through the Real Property Assessment Office. Fire district committees receive equivalent access, and public electronic access is ensured provincially.

The Minister may publish portions of the assessment roll while excluding sensitive location identifiers such as specific civic address information and related details. Additionally assessment services staff are granted access to individual selling prices obtained from affidavits and may share this information with authorized entities, including municipalities, the Department of Housing and Communities, and other prescribed bodies.

The amendments collectively aim to improve transparency in property valuation by standardizing datasets used across municipalities and fire districts, ensuring that both taxable and market-based valuation categories are consistently reported and comparable across jurisdictions within the province.

They also strengthen interoperability between local governments and provincial assessment systems by formalizing electronic access requirements and clarifying the roles of administrative officers and committees responsible for oversight and data dissemination.

A further change broadens internal access to individual transaction data derived from affidavits, enabling assessment services personnel to analyze real estate market trends more effectively. This provision also explicitly authorizes communication of such data to other government entities where required for policy development, housing analysis, and fiscal planning purposes.

At the same time, the regulation introduces explicit limitations on the publication of assessment roll information, particularly protecting specific civic address details and other personally identifiable location data. The Minister retains discretion over the form and manner of publication, allowing for flexibility in balancing transparency with privacy and administrative efficiency across different reporting contexts.

Prince Edward Island (373/2026) April 2, 2026
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