Marginal note:General regulations

25. The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) exempting any person, energy-using product or transaction, or any class thereof, from the application of any or all of the provisions of this Act or the regulations;

• (b) prescribing anything that by this Act is to be prescribed; and

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

Marginal note:Publication of proposed regulations

• 26. (1) Subject to subsection (2), a copy of each regulation that the Governor in Council proposes to make under section 20, 22 or 25 shall be published in the Canada Gazette at least seventy-five days before the proposed effective date thereof.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (2) Subsection (1) 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 subsequent to that publication; or

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

Marginal note:Offence and punishment

• 27. (1) Every person who contravenes subsection 4(1)

  • (a) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine not exceeding fifty thousand dollars; or

  • (b) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (2) Every person who contravenes subsection 4(2), section 5, subsection 6(1), section 7 or 8, subsection 11(3), section 12 or subsection 23(2) or any regulation made under this Act is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (3) Every person who, in purported compliance with this Act or the regulations, submits any report, statistic, information, document or record, makes any statement or answers any question knowing that the report, statistic, information, document, record, statement or answer is false or misleading, or misrepresents or fails to disclose a material fact, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (4) Every person who contravenes any provision of this Act or the regulations, other than a provision referred to in subsection (1) or (2), is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars.

Marginal note:Continuing offences

28. Where an offence under section 27 is committed on more than one day or is continued for more than one day, it shall be deemed to be a separate offence for each day on which the offence is committed or continued.