Canadian High Arctic Research Station Act (S.C. 2014, c. 39, s. 145)

Marginal note:Human resources management

20 CHARS may, in the exercise of its authority in relation to human resources management,

• (a) determine its requirements with respect to human resources and provide for the allocation and effective utilization of human resources;

• (b) provide for the classification of CHARS positions;

• (c) determine and regulate the pay to which its employees are entitled for services rendered, the hours of work and leave of those employees and any related matters;

• (d) determine and regulate the payments that may be made to its employees by way of reimbursement for travel or other expenses and by way of allowances in respect of expenses and conditions arising out of their employment; and

• (e) take any other measures that CHARS considers necessary for effective human resources management.

Marginal note:CHARS’s power to appoint

21 CHARS has the exclusive right and authority to appoint any employees that it considers necessary for carrying out its purpose.

Marginal note:Mobility to departments

• 22 (1) For the purpose of deployments or appointments made, or advertised internal appointment processes, under the Public Service Employment Act, employees of CHARS must be treated as if they were employees within the meaning of that Act and had the rights of recourse provided by that Act.

• Marginal note:When deployments made subject to terms

  (2) The Public Service Commission may, in consultation with the President of the Treasury Board, set terms and conditions for the deployment of CHARS’s employees to departments and agencies under the Public Service Employment Act if, in the opinion of the Commission, the principles governing CHARS’s staffing program are incompatible with those governing staffing under that Act.

• Marginal note:Mobility to CHARS

  (3) When CHARS considers employees within the meaning of the Public Service Employment Act for employment within CHARS, it must treat them as if they were employees of CHARS and had the rights of recourse of CHARS’s employees.

Marginal note:Public Service Commission review

23 The Public Service Commission may periodically review the compatibility of the principles governing CHARS’s staffing program with those governing staffing under the Public Service Employment Act and may report its findings in its annual report.

Marginal note:Political activities

24 Part 7 of the Public Service Employment Act applies to the President and employees of CHARS. For the purposes of that Part, the President is deemed to be a deputy head as defined in subsection 2(1) of that Act and the employees of CHARS are deemed to be employees as defined in that subsection.

Offices and Meetings

Marginal note:Head office and other offices

25 CHARS’s head office is to be in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. The Board may establish other offices elsewhere in Canada that it considers necessary for carrying out CHARS’s purpose.

Marginal note:Meetings

• 26 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the Board must meet at least three times in each year at the times and places that the Chairperson selects.

• Marginal note:Northern meetings

  (2) At least one of the Board’s meetings in each year must be held at CHARS’s head office.

Marginal note:Committees

27 The Board may appoint advisory or other committees. Each committee must include at least one person who is a member of the Board.

Bylaws

Marginal note:Bylaws

28 The Board may make bylaws for the administration, management and control of the property, business and activities of CHARS, including bylaws

• (a) respecting the constitution of any committees appointed under section 27 and the roles and duties of those committees;

• (b) fixing reasonable allowances or expenses for those appointed to a committee under section 27 who are not members of the Board; and

• (c) respecting the procedure at meetings of the Board and its committees.

General

Marginal note:Inventions

29 Despite section 9 of the Public Servants Inventions Act, the administration and control of any invention made by an officer or employee of CHARS and vested in Her Majesty by that Act, and any patent issued with respect to the invention, are vested in CHARS.

Marginal note:Proceedings

30 Actions, suits or other legal proceedings in respect of any right or obligation acquired or incurred by CHARS on behalf of Her Majesty in right of Canada, whether in its name or in the name of Her Majesty, may be brought or taken by or against CHARS in the name of CHARS in any court that has jurisdiction with respect to the subject-matter of the claim.