Motor Vehicle Transport Act

Marginal note:Issuance of safety fitness certificate

• 8 (1) The provincial authority in each province may, subject to the regulations, issue a safety fitness certificate to a person or body to operate an extra-provincial motor carrier undertaking, and may revoke any certificate so issued.

• Marginal note:Certificate valid throughout Canada

  (2) A safety fitness certificate issued under subsection (1) is valid throughout Canada.

• Marginal note:Review of decisions with respect to safety fitness certificates

  (3) The following rules apply to the review of decisions with respect to the issuance or revocation of safety fitness certificates in a province by a provincial authority:

  • (a) any rules with respect to the right of review, and any proceedings governing reviews, applicable in that province in respect of such decisions; and

  • (b) in the absence of rules or procedures established under paragraph (a), the rules with respect to the right of review, and the procedures governing reviews, of decisions with respect to the issuance and revocation of licences of motor carrier undertakings in that province.