Motor Vehicle Transport Act

Marginal note:Regulations

• 9 (1) The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister made after consultation by the Minister with the government of each province affected thereby, make regulations

  • (a) prescribing restrictions or conditions to which licences issued under the authority of this Part shall be subject;

  • (b) requiring an applicant for a licence under this Part to furnish to the provincial transport board information respecting the applicant’s identity and service proposal;

  • (c) exempting corridor operations from the application of subsections 8(3) to (5);

  • (d) exempting from the application of subsections 8(3) to (5) the extra-provincial truck transport of such commodities as may be specified in the regulations;

  • (e) prescribing as the criteria relating to the fitness of an applicant to hold a licence issued under the authority of this Part

    • (i) the criteria set out in any agreement between the Government of Canada and the governments of all of the provinces, as amended from time to time, or

    • (ii) in the absence of any agreement referred to in subparagraph (i) or on failure to renew such an agreement, such criteria as the Governor in Council may consider necessary;

  • (f) authorizing any person or body to determine and certify whether an applicant for a licence under this Part meets, or the holder of a licence issued under the authority of this Part continues to meet, the requirements related to safety that are included in the criteria prescribed pursuant to paragraph (e) and to determine and certify the level at which the applicant or holder of the licence meets those requirements;

  • (g) prescribing the type, amount and conditions of insurance coverage and of bonding or suretyship coverage required to be held by an extra-provincial truck undertaking;

  • (h) prescribing any other matter or thing that by this Part is to be prescribed; and

  • (i) generally as may be necessary for the purposes and provisions of this Part.

• Marginal note:Fitness criteria

  (2) The criteria relating to the fitness of an applicant referred to in paragraph (1)(e) shall include requirements related to safety and insurance and may include requirements relating to bonding or suretyship coverage and to any other requirement relating to the fitness of an applicant to hold a licence.