Output-Based Pricing System Regulations

Marginal note:Ceasing to be a covered facility

• 7 (1) A facility ceases to be a covered facility under the following circumstances:

  • (a) it has ceased production from all specified industrial activities for five consecutive compliance periods; or

  • (b) the person responsible for the covered facility makes a request to that effect because it is expected that the specified industrial activities engaged in at the covered facility will cease for at least 12 consecutive months.

• Marginal note:Date of cessation

  (2) A covered facility ceases to be a covered facility on the following date:

  • (a) for the purposes of paragraph (1)(a), on December 31 of the fifth consecutive calendar year for which no production is reported in an annual report; and

  • (b) for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), on the later of

    • (i) the 30th day following the date the Minister receives the request from the person responsible for the covered facility, or

    • (ii) the date the covered facility ceases production.

• Marginal note:Cessation of operations during compliance period

  (3) In a circumstance in which a facility ceases to be a covered facility before the end of a compliance period, the person who was responsible for that facility must comply with the obligations set out in Division 1 of Part 2 of the Act, including those set out in these Regulations, in respect of the portion of that compliance period during which it was a covered facility.