Marginal note:Continuation of proceedings

85. Proceedings relating to any matter before the former Association on the coming into force of this section, including any matter that is in the course of being heard or investigated by the former Association, shall be continued by the new Association.

Marginal note:Applicants for commissions

86. Every person whose application for a commission had been accepted by the former Board of Examiners before the day on which this section comes into force and who had paid the prescribed fee required by the regulations before that day shall be examined by the new Board of Examiners under the Canada Lands Surveys Act as though that Act had not been amended by this Act.

Marginal note:Records and documents

87. As soon as possible after the coming into force of this section, the Surveyor General shall provide the new Association with a copy of all records and documents in the Surveyor General’s possession relating to the examination of candidates for a commission under the Canada Lands Surveys Act, the Dominion Lands Act, being chapter 55 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906 and the Dominion Lands Surveys Act, being chapter 117 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1927.

Marginal note:Suspension or cancellation of commissions

88. The Discipline Committee shall hear and determine, in accordance with section 16 of the Canada Lands Surveys Act, as that section read immediately before the coming into force of this section, all matters relating to the cancellation or suspension of commissions held by persons to whom a notice referred to in paragraph 16(2)(a) of that Act had been sent by the former Board of Examiners before that day.

Marginal note:Decisions remain in force

89. Every decision of the former Board of Examiners, including those relating to the cancellation or suspension of commissions, that is in force immediately before the day on which this section comes into force remains in force and is deemed to be a decision of the new Association.

Marginal note:Complaints

90. Where, after the day on which this section comes into force, a complaint is made regarding the conduct or actions of a Canada Lands Surveyor before that day, the Discipline Committee may suspend or cancel the Canada Lands Surveyor’s commission only if it determines that the Canada Lands Surveyor is guilty of anything mentioned in subsection 16(1) of the Canada Lands Surveys Act, as that subsection read immediately before that day.

91. to 103. [Amendments]

Marginal note:Coming into force

Footnote ^*104. This Act or any provision of this Act comes into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Act in force March 18, 1999, see SI/99-22.]