1. This Act may be cited as the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety Act.

2. The purpose of this Act is to promote the fundamental right of Canadians to a healthy and safe working environment by creating a national institute concerned with the study, encouragement and cooperative advancement of occupational health and safety, in whose governing body the interests and concerns of workers, trade unions, employers, federal, provincial and territorial authorities, professional and scientific communities and the general public will be represented.

3. In this Act,

• “Centre”

  « Centre »

  “Centre” means the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety established by section 4;

• “Chairman”

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  “Chairman” means the Chairman of the Council;

• “Council”

  « conseil »

  “Council” means the Council of the Centre;

• “executive board”

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  “executive board” means the executive board established by subsection 14(1);

• “governor”

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  “governor” means a member of the Council;

• “Minister”

  « ministre »

  “Minister” means such member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada as is designated by the Governor in Council as the Minister for the purposes of this Act;

• “President”

  « président »

  “President” means the President of the Centre.

4. There is hereby established a corporation, to be called the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, governed by a Council composed of the following persons, to be appointed by the Governor in Council as provided in sections 7 and 8:

• (a) the Chairman;

• (b) thirteen other governors, one to be nominated by the lieutenant governor in council of each of the ten provinces, one to be nominated by the Commissioner of Yukon, one to be nominated by the Commissioner of the Northwest Territories and one to be nominated by the Commissioner of Nunavut;

• (c) four other governors representing

  • (i) departments or Ministries of State of the Government of Canada, or

  • (ii) Crown corporations, as defined in section 83 of the Financial Administration Act,

  having a particular interest in occupational health and safety;

• (d) eleven other governors to be appointed after consultation with such organizations representative of workers as the Governor in Council deems appropriate; and

• (e) eleven other governors to be appointed after consultation with such organizations representative of employers as the Governor in Council deems appropriate.