Budget Implementation Act, 2024, No. 1 (S.C. 2024, c. 17)

Marginal note:Regional assessments — Agency report not provided

• 310 (1) If the Agency, having been authorized by the Minister before the commencement day to conduct an assessment described in section 92 or 93 of the amended Act, has not, before that day, provided a report to the Minister in respect of the assessment,

  • (a) the Agency is deemed, as of that day, to be authorized under section 92 or 93 of the amended Act, as the case may be, to conduct an assessment; and

  • (b) everything that was done in respect of the assessment before that day by or in respect of the Agency is, if it may or must be done under the amended Act, deemed, as of that day, to have been done under the amended Act.

• Marginal note:Regional assessments — Agency report provided

  (2) If the Agency, having been authorized by the Minister to conduct an assessment described in section 92 or 93 of the amended Act, has, before the commencement day, provided a report to the Minister in respect of the assessment, the report is deemed to be a report provided under subsection 102(1) of the amended Act.

Marginal note:Strategic assessments — committee report not provided

• 311 (1) If a committee established by the Minister before the commencement day to conduct an assessment described in section 95 of the amended Act has not, before that day, provided a report to the Minister in respect of the assessment,

  • (a) the committee is deemed, on that day, to be established in accordance with section 95 of the amended Act; and

  • (b) everything that was done in respect of that assessment before that day by or in respect of the committee is, if it may or must be done under the amended Act, deemed, as of that day, to have been done under the amended Act.

• Marginal note:Strategic assessments — committee report provided

  (2) If a committee established by the Minister to conduct an assessment described in section 95 of the amended Act has, before the commencement day, provided a report to the Minister in respect of the assessment, the report is deemed to be a report provided under subsection 102(1) of the amended Act.

Marginal note:Strategic assessments — Agency report not provided

• 312 (1) If the Agency, having been authorized by the Minister before the commencement day to conduct an assessment described in section 95 of the amended Act, has not, before that day, provided a report to the Minister in respect of the assessment,

  • (a) the Agency is deemed, as of that day, to be authorized under section 95 of the amended Act to conduct that assessment; and

  • (b) everything that was done in respect of that assessment before that day by or in respect of the Agency is, if it may or must be done under the amended Act, deemed, as of that day, to have been done under the amended Act.

• Marginal note:Strategic assessments — Agency report provided

  (2) If the Agency, having been authorized by the Minister to conduct an assessment described in section 95 of the amended Act, has, before the commencement day, provided a report to the Minister in respect of the assessment, the report is deemed to be a report provided under subsection 102(1) of the amended Act.

Marginal note:Time limit — response to request for assessment

313 Despite section 8 of the Information and Management of Time Limits Regulations, for the purpose of subsection 97(1) of the amended Act, if, in respect of a request that an assessment described in section 92, 93 or 95 of the amended Act be conducted, the Minister has not responded before the commencement day, the Minister must respond within 90 days after that day.

Marginal note:Agreements or arrangements

• 314 (1) Any agreement or arrangement described in paragraph 114(1)(c) or (f) of the amended Act that was entered into by the Minister before the commencement day is deemed, as of that day, to be an agreement or arrangement entered into under paragraph 114(1)(c) or (f) of the amended Act, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:International agreements or arrangements

  (2) Any agreement or arrangement described in subsection 114(2) of the amended Act that was entered into by the Minister and the Minister of Foreign Affairs before the commencement day is deemed, as of that day, to be an agreement or arrangement entered into under subsection 114(2) of the amended Act.

• Marginal note:Non-application

  (3) Subsection 114(3) of the amended Act does not apply in respect of the agreements or arrangements referred to in subsections (1) and (2).

Marginal note:Cost Recovery Regulations

315 The Cost Recovery Regulations, as they read on August 27, 2019, registered as SOR/2012-146, are deemed to be made by the Governor in Council, under section 109 of the amended Act, on the commencement day.

Marginal note:Physical Activities Regulations

316 The Physical Activities Regulations, as published in the Canada Gazette, Part II, on August 21, 2019 but with the amendments set out in section 93 of the Cross-border Movement of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Recyclable Material Regulations, as published in the Canada Gazette, Part II, on March 17, 2021, and section 1 of the Regulations Amending and Repealing Certain Department of the Environment Regulations (Miscellaneous Program), as published in the Canada Gazette, Part II, on April 12, 2023, are deemed

• (a) to be made by the Governor in Council, under sections 109 and 188 of the amended Act, on the commencement day;

• (b) to be registered as SOR/2019-285;

• (c) to designate physical activities, or classes of physical activities, the carrying out of which may, in the Governor in Council’s opinion, cause adverse effects within federal jurisdiction or direct or incidental adverse effects; and

• (d) despite section 5 of the Physical Activities Regulations, as so published, to come into force on the commencement day.

Marginal note:Information and Management of Time Limits Regulations

317 The Information and Management of Time Limits Regulations, as published in the Canada Gazette, Part II, on August 21, 2019, are deemed

• (a) to be made by the Minister, under section 112 of the amended Act, on the commencement day;

• (b) to be registered as SOR/2019-283; and

• (c) despite section 10 of the Information and Management of Time Limits Regulations, as so published, to come into force on the commencement day.

Marginal note:Regulations Respecting Excluded Physical Activities (Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Exploratory Wells)

• 318 (1) The Regulations Respecting Excluded Physical Activities (Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Exploratory Wells), as posted on the Internet site on June 4, 2020, are deemed

  • (a) to be made by the Minister, under paragraph 112(1)(a.2) of the amended Act, on the commencement day; and

  • (b) despite section 4 of the Regulations Respecting Excluded Physical Activities (Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Exploratory Wells), as so posted, to come into force on the commencement day.

• (2) The Minister is deemed, for the purpose of subsection 112(2) of the amended Act, to have considered an assessment described in section 92 or 93 of the amended Act that is in relation to the physical activities or classes of physical activities designated in the Regulations Respecting Excluded Physical Activities (Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Exploratory Wells).

Marginal note:Regulations

319 The Governor in Council may make any regulations that the Governor in Council considers necessary to provide for any other transitional matter arising from the coming into force of this Division.

DIVISION 29R.S., c. J-1Judges Act

• 320 (1) Paragraph 24(3)(b) of the Judges Act is replaced by the following:

  • (b) 79, in the case of judges appointed to superior courts in the provinces other than appeal courts.

• (2) The portion of subsection 24(4) of the Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Unified family courts

    (4) For the purposes of assisting the establishment of unified family courts in the provinces, a further number of salaries not greater than 58 at any one time may be paid in the case of judges appointed to courts described in paragraph (3)(b)

DIVISION 30R.S., c. T-2Tax Court of Canada Act

321 Subsection 17.1(1) of the Tax Court of Canada Act is replaced by the following:

DIVISION 31R.S., c. F-27Food and Drugs Act

Amendments to the Act

• 322 (1) Paragraph (c) of the definition drogue in section 2 of the French version of the Food and Drugs Act is replaced by the following:

  • c) à la désinfection des locaux où des aliments sont fabriqués, préparés ou gardés. (drug)

• (2) Section 2 of the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:

  foreign regulatory authority

  foreign regulatory authority means a government agency or other entity outside Canada that controls the manufacture, use or sale of therapeutic products or foods within its jurisdiction; (autorité réglementaire étrangère)

323 Subsection 23(1) of the Act is amended by striking out “or” at the end of paragraph (b), by adding “or” at the end of paragraph (c) and by adding the following after paragraph (c):

324 Section 29.2 of the Act and the heading before it are repealed.

• 325 (1) Subsection 30(1) of the Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (j):

  • (j.1) respecting orders referred to in sections 30.01, 30.02, 30.05 and 30.06;

• (2) Paragraph 30(1)(r) of the Act is repealed.

• (3) Subsection 30(1.4) of the Act is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Regulations — preventing or alleviating shortages

    (1.4) Without limiting the power conferred by any other subsection of this section, the Governor in Council may make any regulations that the Governor in Council considers necessary for the purpose of preventing shortages of therapeutic products or foods for a special dietary purpose in Canada or alleviating those shortages or their effects, in order to protect human health.

326 The Act is amended by adding the following after section 30: