Marginal note:Regulations

8. The Minister may make regulations

• (a) specifying programs and projects in addition to those referred to in paragraph 6(1)(d) to improve the business environment in Western Canada; and

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

Marginal note:Annual report

9. The Minister shall cause to be laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first fifteen days on which that House is sitting after January 31 next following the end of each fiscal year, a report on the administration of this Act for that fiscal year.

Marginal note:Appropriations based on Estimates

10. The provisions made by any appropriation Act for the fiscal year in which this section comes into force, based on the Estimates for that year to defray the charges and expenses of the public service of Canada within the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion and the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development in relation to any matter in Western Canada to which the powers, duties or functions of the Minister extend by law, shall be applied to such classifications of the public service within the Department of Western Economic Diversification as the Governor in Council may determine.

Marginal note:Transfer of powers, duties and functions

11. Wherever under any Act, order, rule or regulation, or any contract, lease, licence or other document, any power, duty or function is vested in or exercisable by the Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion, the Deputy Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion or any other officer of the Department of Regional Industrial Expansion in relation to any matter in Western Canada to which the powers, duties or functions of the Minister extend by law, the power, duty or function is vested in and shall be exercised by the Minister of Western Economic Diversification, the Deputy Minister of Western Economic Diversification or the appropriate officer of the Department of Western Economic Diversification, as the case may be, unless the Governor in Council by order designates another Minister, deputy head or officer of a department or a portion of the public service of Canada to exercise that power, duty or function.

Marginal note:Deemed appointment

12. Every indeterminate employee in the public service of Canada who is transferred to a position in the Department from the public service of Canada within ninety days after the day on which this section comes into force is deemed to have been appointed to the Department in accordance with the Public Service Employment Act.

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Marginal note:Coming into force

Footnote ^*18. This Act or any provision thereof shall come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Act in force June 28, 1988, see SI/88-119.]