Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act (S.C. 1989, c. 3)

Marginal note:Regulations

• 34 (1) The Board may, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, make regulations

  • (a) prescribing the manner of exercising or carrying out any of its powers, duties and functions under this Act and, generally, for its efficient operation;

  • (b) respecting the keeping and preservation of records, documents and other evidence relating to transportation occurrences;

  • (c) respecting the attendance of interested persons at tests to destruction conducted under subsection 19(5);

  • (d) defining, for the purposes of an investigation, the site or sites of a transportation occurrence and prescribing rules for the protection of those sites;

  • (e) for defining the rights or privileges of persons attending investigations as observers or with observer status;

  • (f) respecting the tariff of fees and expenses to be paid to any witness attending at an investigation or at a public inquiry conducted under subsection 21(1) and the conditions under which a fee or expenses may be paid to any such witness;

  • (g) respecting the procedures and rules to be followed in conducting public inquiries under subsection 21(1);

  • (h) respecting the forms of warrants issued under section 19 and the modifications to be made to section 487.1 of the Criminal Code in its application to section 19; and

  • (i) generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.

• Marginal note:Amending schedule

  (2) The Governor in Council may, by order, amend the schedule by deleting therefrom or adding thereto the name of any board, commission, body or office.

• Marginal note:Publication of proposed regulations

  (3) Subject to subsection (4), a copy of each regulation that the Board proposes to make under subsection (1) or section 31 shall be published in the Canada Gazette at least ninety days before the proposed effective date thereof, and a reasonable opportunity within those ninety days shall be afforded to interested persons to make representations to the Board with respect thereto.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (4) Subsection (3) does not apply in respect of a proposed regulation that

  • (a) has previously been published pursuant to that subsection, whether or not it has been changed as a result of representations made pursuant to that subsection; or

  • (b) makes no substantive change to an existing regulation.