Impact Assessment Act

Marginal note:Environmental assessments referred to review panel

• 183 (1) Any environmental assessment of a designated project referred to a review panel under section 38 of the 2012 Act before the day on which this Act comes into force is continued under the 2012 Act as if that Act had not been repealed.

• Marginal note:Request of proponent

  (2) Despite subsection (1), on request made to the Minister by the proponent of a designated project referred to in that subsection, the environmental assessment is continued as an impact assessment under this Act as if the impact assessment had been referred by the Minister to a review panel under subsection 36(1) of this Act.

• Marginal note:Power of Agency

  (2.1) If, within one year after the day on which this subsection comes into force, the proponent of a designated project referred to in subsection (1) fails to collect the information or undertake the studies required by the Agency under section 39 of the 2012 Act, the Agency may, despite subsection (1), decide that the environmental assessment of that project is to be continued as an impact assessment under this Act as if the impact assessment had been referred by the Minister to a review panel under subsection 36(1) of this Act.

• Marginal note:Posting of notice on Internet site

  (2.2) The Agency must post on the Internet site a notice of any decision made under subsection (2.1).

• Marginal note:Rules concerning review panels

  (3) The following rules apply in respect of an impact assessment referred to in subsection (2):

  • (a) if, before the day on which this Act comes into force, a review panel was established under subsection 42(1) of the 2012 Act, that review panel is deemed to have been established — and its members are deemed to have been appointed — under section 41 of this Act;

  • (b) if, before that day, an agreement or arrangement was entered into under section 40 of the 2012 Act, that agreement or arrangement is deemed to have been entered into under section 39 of this Act; and

  • (c) if, before that day, a review panel was established by an agreement or arrangement entered into under section 40 of the 2012 Act or by document referred to in subsection 41(2) of the 2012 Act, it is deemed to have been established by — and its members are deemed to have been appointed under — an agreement or arrangement entered into under section 39 of this Act or by document referred to in subsection 40(2) of this Act.