Accessible Transportation Planning and Reporting Regulations (SOR/2021-243)

Marginal note:Classes

• 2 (1) For the purposes of these Regulations, the following classes are established:

  • (a) Class 1 is a class that consists of every regulated entity referred to in any of paragraphs 7(1)(a) to (c) of the Act that is required to comply with any provision of regulations made under subsection 170(1) of the Canada Transportation Act;

  • (b) Class 2 is a class that consists of every regulated entity referred to in paragraph 7(1)(e) or (f) of the Act that is required to comply with any provision of regulations made under subsection 170(1) of the Canada Transportation Act and whose average number of employees in the current calendar year is 100 or more;

  • (c) Class 3 is a class that consists of every regulated entity referred to in paragraph 7(1)(e) or (f) of the Act that is required to comply with any provision of regulations made under subsection 170(1) of the Canada Transportation Act and whose average number of employees in the current calendar year is 10 or more but fewer than 100; and

  • (d) Class 4 is a class that consists of every regulated entity referred to in paragraph 7(1)(e) or (f) of the Act that is required to comply with any provision of regulations made under subsection 170(1) of the Canada Transportation Act and whose average number of employees in the current calendar year is fewer than 10.

• Marginal note:Deemed class

  (2) If the average number of employees of a regulated transport entity belonging to a certain class decreases such that the entity qualifies as a member of a class for entities having a lower average number of employees, that entity is deemed to have always been a member of that latter class and has the obligations of entities in that latter class.

• Marginal note:Obligations before deemed change

  (3) Despite subsection (2), if a regulated transport entity published an accessibility plan as a member of a particular class, it must fulfill its obligations relating to the feedback process and progress reports with respect to that plan as though it were still a member of that class.