Clean Fuel Regulations (SOR/2022-140)

Marginal note:Five consecutive verifications

• 147 (1) An individual who acts as an independent reviewer with respect to the verification of an application or a report or who carries out any verification activities for the person who is making the application or submitting the report must not act as an independent reviewer or carry out any verification activities for that same person with respect to the same type of application or report for more than five consecutive compliance periods.

• Marginal note:Three compliance periods

  (2) An individual who, for five consecutive compliance periods, has acted as an independent reviewer with respect to the verification of an application or a report or carried out verification activities for the person who made the application or submitted the report must not act as an independent reviewer or carry out verification activities for that same person for three consecutive compliance periods beginning on the day on which the most recent verification report was submitted to the Minister.

• Marginal note:Limitation — five compliance periods

  (3) A person who has made an application or submitted a report must not act as an independent reviewer with respect to the verification of the same type of application or a report or carry out verification activities for the same type of application or report unless five compliance periods have elapsed between the day on which they made the application or submitted the report and the day on which the independent review or the verification, as the case may be, begins.

• Marginal note:Employees of federal public administration

  (4) An employee of the federal public administration who administers or implements these Regulations or carries out any related activities must not carry out any activity that is part of a verification of an application or report or an independent review of a verification, unless five compliance periods have elapsed between the day on which their employment ends and the day on which the independent review or the verification, as the case may be, begins.

• Marginal note:Verification of reports related to applications

  (5) An individual must not carry out verification activities for a report submitted under any of sections 120 to 123 or act as an independent reviewer with respect to the verification of such a report if, during the five preceding years, they carried out verification activities, or acted as the independent reviewer, with respect to an application made under subsection 80(1) or 91(1) for the approval of a carbon intensity that is referred to in the report.

• Marginal note:Verification of certain reports

  (6) An individual who carried out verification activities for a report that was submitted under section 123 or acted as an independent reviewer with respect to the verification of such a report must not, during the same compliance period, act as an independent reviewer or carry out verification activities with respect to a report that was submitted under section 120, 121 or 122 if the report was submitted by the same person who submitted the report under section 123 and it relates to the same carbon intensity.