Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act

Marginal note:Administration agreement

• 7 (1) The Minister or the Minister of National Revenue, with the approval of the Governor in Council, may on behalf of the Government of Canada enter into an administration agreement with the government of a province or an aboriginal government.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (1.1) An administration agreement referred to in paragraph (b) of the definition administration agreement in subsection 2(1) can only be entered into if the government of the province that is to administer and enforce the First Nation law also administers and enforces Part IX of the Excise Tax Act under an administration agreement referred to in paragraph (a) of that definition.

• Marginal note:Amending agreement

  (2) The Minister or the Minister of National Revenue, with the approval of the Governor in Council, may on behalf of the Government of Canada enter into an agreement amending the terms and conditions of an administration agreement.

• Marginal note:Amending agreement — exception to general rule

  (2.1) Subsection (2) does not apply to an amendment made to an administration agreement if the agreement authorizes the Minister or the Minister of National Revenue to make the amendment and the amendment does not fundamentally alter the terms and conditions of the agreement.

• Marginal note:Confirmation of past amendments

  (2.2) Amendments that were made to an administration agreement before the day on which the Technical Tax Amendments Act, 2012 received royal assent and that, if subsection (2.1) had been in force on the date those amendments were made, would have been authorized under that subsection are, for greater certainty, ratified and confirmed and all actions taken and payments made as a result of those amendments are ratified and confirmed.

• Marginal note:Application of provincial laws

  (3) Where an Act of the legislature of a province in respect of which an administration agreement has been entered into and that imposes a tax contains provisions requiring every person making a payment of a specified kind to another person to deduct or withhold therefrom an amount, and to remit that amount on account of the tax, effect may be given to those provisions in relation to persons to whom those payments are made out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund or by an agent of Her Majesty in right of Canada.

• Marginal note:Depositing payments

  (4) A government that is a party to an administration agreement in respect of an Act may, in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement and, if the Act is the Act of the legislature of a province, subject to the law of the province, deposit to an account under its control any form of payment, including a cheque or money order, received in the course of administering and enforcing the Act, that is payable to the government that is the other party to the administration agreement.