Red Tape Reduction Act (S.C. 2015, c. 12)

Marginal note:Report

• 15 (1) Subject to subsection (2), the President of the Treasury Board must prepare and make public each year a report on the application of section 12 during the 12-month period ending on March 31 of the year in which the report is to be made public. The report must include a list of the orders made under section 12 that were in effect during that period and the names of the ministers who made them.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) The President of the Treasury Board is not required to prepare a report if no orders made under section 12 were in effect during the period referred to in subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Tabling

  (3) The President of the Treasury Board must cause the report referred to in subsection (1) to be laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first 15 days on which that House is sitting after the day on which the report is made public.

• Marginal note:Referral to Committee

  (4) The report must be referred to the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates of the House of Commons or, if there is not a Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates, the appropriate committee of the House of Commons.