Shared Services Canada Act (S.C. 2012, c. 19, s. 711)

Marginal note:Authorization

• 9.1 (1) Despite the Governor in Council having specified, under paragraph 6(c), that a department must obtain a service that is specified under paragraph 6(a) exclusively from the Minister through Shared Services Canada and is not permitted to meet its requirement for that service internally, the Minister may, if the Minister considers that exceptional circumstances justify it, and under any terms and conditions that the Minister specifies,

  • (a) authorize that department to obtain part of that service other than from the Minister through Shared Services Canada, including by meeting its requirement for that part of the service internally; or

  • (b) authorize that department to obtain all of that service in respect of one or more portions of the department — but not all of the department — other than from the Minister through Shared Services Canada, including by meeting its requirement for that service internally.

• Marginal note:Power exercised personally

  (2) The Minister must personally exercise the power that is set out in subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Instructions

  (3) A department that is authorized, under subsection (1), to obtain all or part of a service other than from the Minister through Shared Services Canada, including by meeting its requirement for that service or that part of the service internally, must do so in accordance with any instructions that the Minister provides.