Keeping Canada’s Economy and Jobs Growing Act (S.C. 2011, c. 24)
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Assented to 2011-12-15
PART 162010, c. 12JOBS AND ECONOMIC GROWTH ACT
PART 17R.S., c. V-1; 2000, c. 34, par. 95(a)(F)DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS ACT
179. The Department of Veterans Affairs Act is amended by adding the following after section 1:
INTERPRETATION
Definition of “dependant”
1.1 For the purposes of this Act, “dependant” means the spouse or common-law partner or child of any person referred to in subparagraph 4(a)(i), or any other person who provided or received care or support, financial or otherwise, to or from that person.
Marginal note:2000, c. 34, s. 13(2)
180. Paragraph 5(c) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(c) respecting the care, treatment or other benefits to be provided or that the Minister will pay for in whole or in part, the circumstances in which the Minister will pay in whole or in part and the circumstances in which the Minister may cease to pay in whole or in part;
PART 182000, c. 9CANADA ELECTIONS ACT
Amendments to the Act
Marginal note:2003, c. 19, s. 40
181. Subsection 435.01(2) of the Canada Elections Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Computation of fund
(2) An allowance fund for a quarter is the product of the number of valid votes cast in the election referred to in subsection (1) multiplied by the applicable following number:
(a) $0.3825, for the quarter that begins on April 1, 2012 and the three following quarters;
(b) $0.255, for the quarter that begins on April 1, 2013 and the three following quarters; and
(c) $0.1275, for the quarter that begins on April 1, 2014 and the three following quarters.
Coming into Force
Marginal note:April 1, 2012
182. This Part comes into force on April 1, 2012.
PART 19SPECIAL RETIREMENT ARRANGEMENTS
1992, c. 46, Sch. ISpecial Retirement Arrangements Act
183. Section 15 of the Special Retirement Arrangements Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Persons required to contribute
15. Every person who is subject to a retirement compensation arrangement that is designated by the regulations is required to contribute to the Retirement Compensation Arrangements Account, by reservation from the person’s salary, from any benefit that is or becomes payable to, or in respect of, that person or otherwise, in the manner and under the circumstances prescribed in respect of that arrangement, at the rate or rates established by the regulations in respect of that arrangement.
1992, c. 46An act to amend certain acts in relation to pensions and to enact the Special Retirement Arrangements Act and the Pension Benefits Division Act
Marginal note:Retroactive coming into force
184. Despite subsection 109(1) of An Act to amend certain Acts in relation to pensions and to enact the Special Retirement Arrangements Act and the Pension Benefits Division Act, chapter 46 of the Statutes of Canada, 1992, (in this section referred to as the “amending Act”) and Order in Council P.C. 1994-2097, made on December 14, 1994 and registered as SI/94-146,
(a) subsections 2(4) and 6(2), sections 8, 11 and 18, subsection 33(2), sections 40 and 41, subsection 48(1) and sections 61, 68 and 70 of the amending Act are deemed to have come into force on December 15, 1994;
(b) paragraph 42.1(1)(a) of the Public Service Superannuation Act, as enacted by section 22 of the amending Act, is deemed to have come into force on December 15, 1994;
(c) paragraph 50.1(1)(a) of the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act, as enacted by section 49 of the amending Act, is deemed to have come into force on December 15, 1994;
(d) paragraph 26.1(1)(a) of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superannuation Act, as enacted by section 77 of the amending Act, is deemed to have come into force on December 15, 1994; and
(e) section 106 of the amending Act is deemed to have come into force on December 14, 1994.
PART 201993, c. 16MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY ACT
185. Section 7 of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):
Marginal note:Exception — temporary importation
(1.1) Sections 5 and 6 do not apply to a resident of Canada who imports a vehicle that is licensed in the United States if the vehicle is rented in the United States from a vehicle rental business and is being imported into Canada for non-commercial purposes.
Marginal note:Importer to remove vehicle from Canada
(1.2) A resident of Canada who imports a vehicle under subsection (1.1) shall remove the vehicle from Canada within a period of 30 days, or any other prescribed period, beginning on the day on which the vehicle is imported.
Marginal note:Rental business to remove vehicle from Canada
(1.3) If, within the period referred to in subsection (1.2), the resident of Canada delivers the vehicle to a vehicle rental business in Canada with the consent of the business, then the vehicle rental business shall remove the vehicle from Canada before the end of that period.
Marginal note:Subsection (1.2) does not apply
(1.4) For greater certainty, if a vehicle rental business is required under subsection (1.3) to remove the vehicle from Canada, subsection (1.2) does not apply to the resident of Canada.
Marginal note:Regulations
(1.5) The Governor in Council may make regulations
(a) respecting vehicles imported under subsection (1.1);
(b) respecting the importation or removal of vehicles under subsections (1.1) to (1.4); and
(c) defining, for the purposes of those subsections, any term used in them.
186. (1) The portion of subsection 17(1) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Offence and punishment
17. (1) Every corporation that contravenes any provision of this Act or the regulations
(2) The portion of subsection 17(2) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Offence and punishment
(2) Every individual who contravenes any provision of this Act or the regulations
PART 21R.S., c. F-8; 1995, c. 17, s. 45(1)FEDERAL-PROVINCIAL FISCAL ARRANGEMENTS ACT
Marginal note:1997, c. 10, s. 262
187. The portion of section 8.4 of the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Payments to province
8.4 If there is a sales tax harmonization agreement with the government of a province, the appropriate minister may pay to the province out of amounts received in a fiscal year under Part IX of the Excise Tax Act
188. Section 8.7 of the Act is renumbered as subsection 8.7(1) and is amended by adding the following:
Marginal note:Confirmation of past payments
(2) Payments that were made before the date on which the Keeping Canada’s Economy and Jobs Growing Act was assented to and that could have been authorized under section 8.4, as amended by that Act, if that version of section 8.4 had been in force on the date those payments were made are, for greater certainty, ratified and confirmed and all actions taken in respect of those payments are ratified and confirmed.
PART 222005, c. 34DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT ACT
189. Subsection 27(2) of the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Residence
(2) The Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson shall reside in the National Capital Region or at the place designated by the Governor in Council under subsection (1), or within reasonable commuting distance of that region or place.
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