Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-13)

Marginal note:Meetings

15 The executive board shall meet at least six times in each year.

Committees and Staff

Marginal note:Advisory and other committees

16 The Centre may, in accordance with the by-laws, appoint advisory or other committees.

Marginal note:Officers and employees

17 The Centre may, in accordance with the by-laws, employ or engage such officers, employees and agents as are necessary for the proper conduct of the work of the Centre.

Remuneration and Expenses

Marginal note:President

• 18 (1) The President shall be paid such salary and expenses as are fixed by the Governor in Council.

• Marginal note:Acting President

  (2) An acting President shall be paid such salary and expenses as are fixed by the Governor in Council.

Marginal note:Chairman and other governors

19 The Chairman and the other governors shall not be paid a salary, but may be paid

• (a) such allowance for each day spent in connection with the work of the Centre,

• (b) such allowance for the performance, with the approval of the Council, of any duties over and above their ordinary duties, and

• (c) such travel and living expenses while absent from their ordinary place of residence in connection with the work of the Centre

as are fixed by the Governor in Council.

General

Marginal note:Head office

20 The head office of the Centre shall be at such place in Canada as is designated by the Governor in Council.

Marginal note:Meetings of Council

• 21 (1) The Council shall meet at least three times in each year, with at least one such meeting at the head office of the Centre, and at such other times and places in Canada as the executive board deems necessary.

• Marginal note:Chairman to preside

  (2) The Chairman shall preside at meetings of the Council.

• Marginal note:Council meetings open to President

  (3) The President is entitled to attend and participate in all meetings of the Council.

• Marginal note:Quorum of Council

  (4) A majority of governors constitutes a quorum of the Council.

Marginal note:By-laws

22 The Council may make by-laws for the conduct and management of the affairs of the Centre and, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, may make by-laws respecting

• (a) the appointment and operation of advisory or other committees referred to in section 16 and the allowances and expenses, if any, to be paid to members of those committees who are not members of the Council;

• (b) the employment or engagement and the remuneration, expenses and duties of officers, employees and agents of the Centre;

• (c) the procedure in all business at meetings of the Council and of the executive board;

• (d) the assignment of any powers and activities of the Centre to the executive board and the manner in which those powers and activities shall be exercised or performed; and

• (e) the manner in which briefs and other written representations submitted to the Centre are to be considered.

Marginal note:Status of governors, officers, employees and agents

• 23 (1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3), the Chairman and President, the other governors and officers and the employees and agents of the Centre are not part of the federal public administration.

• Marginal note:Superannuation

  (2) The President, the other officers and the employees of the Centre shall be deemed to be employed in the public service for the purposes of the Public Service Superannuation Act.

• Marginal note:Compensation

  (3) The President, the other officers and the employees of the Centre shall be deemed to be employed in the federal public administration for the purposes of the Government Employees Compensation Act and any regulations made under section 9 of the Aeronautics Act.

• Marginal note:Application of Public Service Superannuation Act to governors

  (4) The Public Service Superannuation Act does not apply to the Chairman or the other governors unless, in the case of any of them, the Governor in Council directs that it shall apply.

Marginal note:Centre deemed registered charity

24 The Centre shall, for the purposes of the Income Tax Act, be deemed to be a registered charity within the meaning of that expression for the purposes of that Act.

25 [Repealed, 2012, c. 19, s. 170]

Reports

Marginal note:Annual report

• 26 (1) Within four months after the end of each year, the Council shall submit to the Minister a report on the activities of the Centre for that year, including a summary of the disposition of briefs and other written representations considered by the Centre as required by subsection 6(2) and the financial statements of the Centre.

• Marginal note:Tabling report

  (2) The Minister shall cause the report referred to in subsection (1) to be laid before Parliament not later than the tenth sitting day of Parliament after he receives it.

• Definition of sitting day of Parliament

  (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), sitting day of Parliament means a day on which either House of Parliament sits.

• Marginal note:Report to be sent to each province

  (4) Without delay after the report is laid before Parliament under subsection (2), the Minister shall send a copy of it to the lieutenant governor of each province, the Commissioner of Yukon, the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories and the Commissioner of Nunavut.

Marginal note:Results of research available to public

27 The results of research assisted or initiated by the Centre shall be made available to the public by the Centre within ninety days after becoming available to the Centre.