Public Servants Disclosure Protection Tribunal Rules of Procedure (SOR/2011-170)

Marginal note:Application

• 45 (1) Subject to subrules (2) to (4) and except for Rules 5, 6 and 21, these Rules apply to the proceedings in respect of an application that is made to the Tribunal by the Commissioner under subsection 20.4(1) of the Act before the day on which these Rules come into force.

• Marginal note:Non-application

  (2) The time limits referred to in paragraph 23(a) and Rule 24 do not apply to the proceedings in respect of the application.

• Marginal note:Tribunal directions

  (3) If the Tribunal provides a party or interested person with directions regarding any matter of procedure that is governed by these Rules before the day on which these Rules come into force, they must continue to act in accordance with those directions and the Rules that would otherwise govern the matter do not apply.

• Marginal note:Non-application

  (4) If a Rule contains a time limit that requires the doing of a thing within a prescribed number of days before the day on which the hearing begins, the time limit does not apply if

  • (a) before the day on which these Rules come into force, the Tribunal provides the parties with directions regarding the time for the doing of the thing; or

  • (b) on the day on which these Rules come into force, there are no more than the prescribed number of days remaining before the day on which the hearing begins.