Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation Act

Marginal note:Accounting of advance on account

229 Where an amount has been paid to Her Majesty in right of the Province pursuant to section 228 on account of a fiscal equalization offset payment for a fiscal year, the amount shall be accounted for and shall be deemed to be a portion of the fiscal equalization offset payment in respect of the fiscal year as determined by the Minister of Finance in the manner prescribed, notwithstanding that the fiscal equalization offset payment was not determined by the Minister of Finance in accordance with section 225.