Transitional Provisions

Marginal note:Deputy Minister and Associate Deputy Minister

• 217. (1) Any person who holds the office of Deputy Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development or of Associate Deputy Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development immediately before the day on which this section comes into force is deemed to hold the office of Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Development or of Associate Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Development, respectively, as of that day.

• Marginal note:Deputy Minister of Labour

  (2) Any person who holds the office of Deputy Minister of Labour immediately before the day on which this section comes into force is deemed to have been designated Deputy Minister of Labour under subsection 4(3) of the Department of Employment and Social Development Act, as enacted by section 209 of this Act, as of that day.

Marginal note:Positions

218. Nothing in this Act is to be construed as affecting the status of an employee who, immediately before the coming into force of this section, occupied a position in the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development except that the employee, on the coming into force of this section, occupies their position in the Department of Employment and Social Development under the authority of the Minister of Employment and Social Development.

Marginal note:Transfer of appropriations

219. Any amount appropriated by an Act of Parliament for the fiscal year in which this section comes into force to defray the charges and expenses of the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development that is unexpended is deemed to have been appropriated to defray the charges and expenses of the Department of Employment and Social Development.

Marginal note:Transfer of powers, duties and functions

220. If, under any Act of Parliament, any instrument made under an Act of Parliament or any order, contract, lease, licence or other document, any power, duty or function is vested in or may be exercised or performed by the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, that power, duty or function is vested in or may be exercised or performed by the Minister of Employment and Social Development, the Deputy Minister of Employment and Social Development or the appropriate officer of the Department of Employment and Social Development, as the case may be.

Consequential Amendments

R.S., c. A-1Access to Information Act

Marginal note:2005, c. 34, s. 59

221. Schedule I to the Access to Information Act is amended by striking out the following under the heading “DEPARTMENTS AND MINISTRIES OF STATE”:

222. Schedule I to the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading “DEPARTMENTS AND MINISTRIES OF STATE”:

R.S., c. F-11Financial Administration Act

Marginal note:2005, c. 34, s. 66

223. Schedule I to the Financial Administration Act is amended by striking out the following:

224. Schedule I to the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:

Marginal note:2006, c. 9, s. 270

225. Part I of Schedule VI to the Act is amended by striking out the following:

226. Part I of Schedule VI to the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:

R.S., c. P-21Privacy Act

Marginal note:2005, c. 34, s. 73

227. The schedule to the Privacy Act is amended by striking out the following under the heading “DEPARTMENTS AND MINISTRIES OF STATE”:

228. The schedule to the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading “DEPARTMENTS AND MINISTRIES OF STATE”:

R.S., c. 4 (2nd Supp.)Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act

Marginal note:2012, c. 19, subpar. 694(c)(i) and s. 695(2)(E)

229. Paragraph (a) of the definition “information bank director” in section 2 of the Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:2005, c. 35, s. 53; 2012, c. 19, subpar. 694(c)(ii) and 695(d)(i)

230. Section 6 of the Act is replaced by the following:

R.S., c. 1 (5th Supp.)Income Tax Act

231. Subparagraph 241(4)(d)(x.1) of the Income Tax Act is replaced by the following:

1991, c. 30Public Sector Compensation Act

Marginal note:2005, c. 34, s. 76

232. Schedule I to the Public Sector Compensation Act is amended by striking out the following under the heading “DEPARTMENTS”:

233. Schedule I to the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading “DEPARTMENTS”:

1994, c. 28Canada Student Financial Assistance Act

Marginal note:2008, c. 28, s. 108(4)

234. Subsection 15(2) of the Canada Student Financial Assistance Act is repealed.

2001, c. 27Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

Marginal note:2013, c. 33, s. 161

235. The portion of subsection 30(1.43) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

Terminology

Marginal note:Replacement of “Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act”

• 236. (1) Every reference to the “Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act” is replaced by a reference to the “Department of Employment and Social Development Act” in the following provisions:

  • (a) subsection 144(5.1) of the Canada Labour Code;

  • (b) in the Canada Pension Plan,

    • (i) subsections 38(1) and (3) and paragraph 38(4)(b),

    • (ii) section 82,

    • (iii) the portion of section 83 before paragraph (a), and

    • (iv) paragraph 108(3)(e);

  • (c) in the Employment Insurance Act,

    • (i) section 65.21,

    • (ii) paragraphs 77(1)(d.1) and (g),

    • (iii) section 113, and

    • (iv) subsection 114(1);

  • (d) paragraph 28(1)(g) of the Federal Courts Act as enacted by subsection 272(2) of the Jobs, Growth and Long-term Prosperity Act, chapter 19 of the Statutes of Canada, 2012;

  • (e) in the Income Tax Act,

    • (i) paragraph 56(1)(a.3),

    • (ii) subparagraph 110(1)(g)(i), and

    • (iii) the definition “qualifying educational program” in subsection 118.6(1);

  • (f) in the Labour Adjustment Benefits Act,

    • (i) the definition “Social Security Tribunal” in subsection 2(1), and

    • (ii) subsection 13(7); and

  • (g) in the Old Age Security Act,

    • (i) paragraph 5(3)(b),

    • (ii) subparagraph 19(6)(f)(ii),

    • (iii) subparagraph 21(9)(d)(ii), and

    • (iv) subsection 28(1).

• Marginal note:Other references to Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act

  (2) Unless the context requires otherwise, every reference to the Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act in any provision of an Act of Parliament other than a provision referred to in subsection (1) is, with any grammatical adaptations, to be read as a reference to the Department of Employment and Social Development Act.

• Marginal note:Replacement in regulations, etc.

  (3) Unless the context requires otherwise, “Department of Human Resources and Skills Development Act” is replaced by “Department of Employment and Social Development Act” in

  • (a) any regulation, as defined in section 2 of the Statutory Instruments Act; and

  • (b) any other instrument made

    • (i) in the execution of a power conferred by or under an Act of Parliament, or

    • (ii) by or under the authority of the Governor in Council.