Impact Assessment Act

Marginal note:Regulations — Minister

• 112 (1) The Minister may make regulations

  • (a) prescribing the information that must be contained in the description referred to in subsection 10(1) or 15(1.1) and the documents referred to in paragraph 18(1)(b);

  • (a.1) respecting the form and format of a description referred to in subsection 10(1), of a notice referred to in subsection 15(1) and of any information or study provided under this Act and the manner of providing the description, notice, information or study;

  • (a.2) designating, for the purposes of section 112.1, a physical activity or class of physical activities from among those specified by the Governor in Council under paragraph 109(b), establishing the conditions that must be met for the purposes of the designation and setting out the information that a person or entity — federal authority, government or body — that is referred to in subsection (3) must provide the Agency in respect of the physical activity that they propose to carry out;

  • (a.3) respecting the procedures and requirements relating to assessments referred to in section 92, 93 or 95;

  • (b) respecting the procedures, requirements and time periods relating to impact assessments, including the manner of designing a follow-up program;

  • (c) prescribing, for the purposes of any of subsections 9(5), 18(6), 28(9), 36(3) and 37(6), any activity in respect of which a time limit may be suspended and respecting circumstances, in relation to an activity, in which a time limit may be suspended;

  • (d) respecting a participant funding program established under section 75;

  • (e) designating, for the purposes of section 75, a physical activity or class of physical activities;

  • (e.1) prescribing the time limit referred to in subsection 97(1);

  • (f) respecting the Registry, including the identification of records or information to be posted on the Internet site and the establishment and maintenance of project files referred to in section 106; and

  • (g) respecting the charging of fees for providing copies of documents contained in the Registry.

• Marginal note:Condition

  (2) The Minister may make a regulation designating a physical activity or class of physical activities under paragraph (1)(a.2) only after considering an assessment referred to in section 92 or 93 that is in relation to that physical activity or class of physical activities.

• Marginal note:Written notice

  (3) A person or entity — federal authority, government or body — that proposes the carrying out of a physical activity that is designated by the Minister under paragraph 112(1)(a.2) or that is part of a class of physical activities that is designated by the Minister under that paragraph must notify the Agency in writing that they propose to do so.

• Marginal note:Statutory Instruments Act

  (4) The Statutory Instruments Act does not apply to a regulation made under paragraph 112(1)(a.2).

• Marginal note:Regulation posted on Internet site

  (5) The Agency must post any regulation made under paragraph 112(1)(a.2) on the Internet site.