Department of Public Works and Government Services Act (S.C. 1996, c. 16)

Evidence

Marginal note:Copies

25 A copy of any map, plan or other document in the custody of the Department, certified by a person designated by the Minister to be a true copy, shall be held to be authentic, and is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, of the same legal effect as the original.

Transitional Provisions

Marginal note:Positions

• 26 (1) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the status of an employee who, immediately before the coming into force of this subsection, occupied a position in

  • (a) the Department of Supply and Services,

  • (b) the Department of Public Works,

  • (c) the portion of the public service known as the Government Telecommunications Agency in the Department of Communications, referred to in clause (a)(i)(A) of Order in Council P.C. 1993-1484 of June 25, 1993 registered as SI/93-138, or

  • (d) the portion of the public service known as the Translation Bureau, consisting of the portions of the Office of the Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Official Languages — Translation) and the Office of the Assistant Under-Secretary of State (Social Development and Regional Operations) in the Department of the Secretary of State of Canada relating to translation and related services referred to in clause (a)(i)(B) of Order in Council P.C. 1993-1484 of June 25, 1993 registered as SI/93-138

  except that the employee shall, on the coming into force of this subsection, occupy that position in the Department of Public Works and Government Services under the authority of the Deputy Minister of Public Works and Government Services.

• Marginal note:Definition of employee

  (2) In this section, employee has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Public Service Employment Act.

Marginal note:Transfer of appropriations

27 Any amount appropriated, for the fiscal year in which this section comes into force, by an appropriation Act based on the Estimates for that year for defraying the charges and expenses of the public service of Canada within the Department of Public Works or the Department of Supply and Services and that, on the day on which this section comes into force, is unexpended is deemed, on that day, to be an amount appropriated for defraying the charges and expenses of the Department of Public Works and Government Services.

Marginal note:Transfer of powers, duties and functions

28 Wherever under any Act, order, rule or regulation, or any contract, lease, licence or other document, any power, duty or function is vested in or exercisable by

• (a) the Minister of Public Works or the Minister of Supply and Services,

• (b) the Deputy Minister of Public Works or the Deputy Minister of Supply and Services, or

• (c) any officer of the Department of Public Works or the Department of Supply and Services,

the power, duty or function is vested in and shall be exercised by

• (d) the Minister of Public Works and Government Services,

• (e) the Deputy Minister of Public Works and Government Services, or

• (f) the appropriate officer of the Department of Public Works and Government Services,

as the case may be, unless the Governor in Council by order designates another minister, deputy minister or officer of the public service of Canada to exercise that power, duty or function.

Related Amendments

29 to 59 [Amendments]

References

• 60 (1) [Amendments]

• Marginal note:References to Minister of Public Works and Minister of Supply and Services

  (2) Every reference to the Minister of Public Works or the Minister of Supply and Services in any other Act of Parliament or in any order, regulation or other instrument made under an Act of Parliament shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services.

• 61 (1) [Amendments]

• Marginal note:References to Department of Public Works and Department of Supply and Services

  (2) Every reference to the Department of Public Works or the Department of Supply and Services in any other Act of Parliament or in any order, regulation or other instrument made under an Act of Parliament shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be read as a reference to the Department of Public Works and Government Services.

Conditional Amendment

62 [Amendments]

Repeals

63 to 66 [Repeals]

Coming into Force

Marginal note:Coming into force

Footnote ^*67 This Act or any of its provisions or any provision of an Act of Parliament enacted by this Act comes into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Act, except sections 32, 54 and 55, in force July 12, 1996, see SI/96-67; sections 54 and 55 in force October 8, 1996, see SI/96-91; section 32 repealed before coming into force, see 2008, c. 20, s. 3.]