Northern Pipeline Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. N-26)

Marginal note:Offices

11. Offices of the Agency may be established at such places in Canada as the Minister considers appropriate.

Marginal note:Separate employer

• 12. (1) The Agency may employ such professional, scientific, technical and other officers and employees as it considers necessary for the purposes of this Act, fix their tenure of employment and their duties and, with the approval of the Treasury Board, fix and pay their remuneration.

• Marginal note:Technical assistance

  (2) The Agency may engage on a temporary basis the services of persons having technical or specialized knowledge to advise and assist the Agency in the performance of its duties and, with the approval of the Treasury Board, may fix and pay the remuneration and expenses of those persons.

• Marginal note:Public Service Superannuation Act

  (3) Each person employed under subsection (1) is deemed to be employed in the public service for the purposes of the Public Service Superannuation Act.

• Marginal note:Application of other Acts

  (4) Each person employed under subsection (1) is deemed to be employed in the federal public administration for the purposes of the Government Employees Compensation Act and any regulations made pursuant to section 9 of the Aeronautics Act.

• Marginal note:Secondment and advice and assistance

  (5) The Governor in Council may, on the request of the Minister, direct any department or agency of the Government of Canada to second to the Agency, for specified periods, officers and employees necessary for the proper conduct of the work of the Agency and the Agency may, subject to any provisions relating to privileged information in any other Act, obtain the advice and assistance of any department or agency of the Government of Canada.

Marginal note:Audit

13. The accounts and financial transactions of the Agency shall be audited annually by the Auditor General of Canada and a report thereon shall be made to the Minister.

Marginal note:Annual report

14. The Minister shall, on or before December 31 next following the end of each fiscal year, prepare a report relating to the operations of the Agency for that fiscal year and the Minister shall cause the report, together with the report referred to in section 13, to be laid before Parliament on that date or, if Parliament is not then sitting, on any of the first fifteen days that either House of Parliament is sitting thereafter.