Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act

Marginal note:Jurisdiction

• 5.31 (1) The National Energy Board has full and exclusive jurisdiction to inquire into, hear and determine any matter

  • (a) if it appears to the National Energy Board that any person failed to do any act, matter or thing required to be done by this Act, any regulation, order or direction made under this Act, or an operating licence or authorization issued under section 5, or that any person has done or is doing any act, matter or thing contrary to or in contravention of this Act, any regulation, order or direction made under this Act, or an operating licence or authorization issued under section 5; or

  • (b) if it appears to the National Energy Board that the circumstances may require the Board, in the public interest, to make any order or give any direction, leave, sanction or approval that by law it is authorized to make or give, or with respect to any act, matter or thing that is prohibited, sanctioned or required to be done by this Act, any regulation, order or direction made under this Act, or an operating licence or authorization issued under section 5.

• Marginal note:Of its own motion

  (2) The National Energy Board may, of its own motion, inquire into, hear and determine any matter or thing that under this Act it may inquire into, hear and determine.

• Marginal note:Matters of law and fact

  (3) For the purposes of this Act, the National Energy Board has full jurisdiction to hear and determine all matters, whether of law or of fact.