Environmental Emergency Regulations, 2019 (SOR/2019-51)

Marginal note:Electronic submission under these Regulations

• 20 (1) Any information that is required to be submitted to the Minister under these Regulations must be submitted electronically in the form and format specified by the Minister and bear the electronic signature of the person who is required to submit the information or of their authorized representative.

• Marginal note:Electronic submission — written report of environmental emergency

  (2) Any written report provided under paragraph 201(1)(a) of the Act to an enforcement officer or the person referred to in subsection 18(2) must be submitted electronically in the form and format specified by the Minister and bear the electronic signature of the person who is required to submit the report or of their authorized representative.

• Marginal note:Submission on paper

  (3) If the Minister has not specified a form and format or if it is not feasible to submit the information or report electronically because of circumstances beyond the person’s control, the information or report, as the case may be, must be submitted on paper in the form and format specified by the Minister, if any, and be signed by the person or their authorized representative.