CPA · Government Organization Act
1 Definitions
(a) "department" means a department established under section
2;
(b) "Minister" means a member of the Executive Council of
Alberta.
1994 cG-8.5 s1
In this Schedule, "provincially administered institution" means
an advanced education institution owned by the Government and
operated as part of the department that the Minister administers.
That part of the administration of the Government relating to
agriculture is under the responsibility of the Minister, unless
administration is specifically assigned under this or another Act to
some other person.
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(1) The Minister is responsible for programs and services of the
Government of Alberta relating to immigration to Alberta.
(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations
respecting programs and services relating to immigration to
Alberta.
The Minister may appoint as conservation officers employees of
the Crown who are subject to the Public Service Act.
That part of the administration of the Government relating to
education is under the responsibility of the Minister, unless
responsibility is specifically assigned under this or another Act to
some other person.
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In this Schedule,
(a) "environment" means environment as defined in the
Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act;
(b) "government agency" means
(i) a corporation that is an agent of the Government, or
(ii) a corporation, commission, board or other body whose
members are appointed by an Act of the Legislature, the
Lieutenant Governor in Council or a Minister of the
Government, or any combination of them;
(c) "natural resources" means land , plant life, animal life, water
and air.
The Minister
(a) is responsible for the co-ord ination of all policies, programs
and activities of the Government of Alberta and its agencies
in relation to the Government of Canada, the governments
of the provinces and territories of Canada, and the
governments of foreign countries or states, and all agencies
of those governments;
(b) shall conduct a continuing review of
(i) all policies, programs and activities of the Government
of Alberta and its agencies in relation to the Government
of Canada, the governments of the provinces and
territories of Canada and the governments of foreign
countries or states,
(ii) all intergovernmental agreements as defined in section
11 of the Act, and
(iii) all relevant legislation pertaining to those policies,
programs, activities and agreements;
(c) may be a party to the negotiation of any proposed
intergovernmental agreement as defined in section 11 of the
Act;
(d) shall from time to time take any action the Minister
considers necessary to initiate or maintain
intergovernmental co-operation between the Government of
Alberta and the Government of Canada, the government of a
province or territory of Canada or any government of a
foreign country or state.
(1) In this section,
(a) "Government health care f acility" means any land owned by
the Crown in right of Alberta that is under the
administration of the Minister, including buildings and
improvements on the land, and that is used or is suitable for
use in providing diagnostic or treatment services or care for
ill or injured persons;
(b) "health board" means
(i) the owner of an approved hospital other than an
approved hospital owned and operated by the
Government of Alberta;
(ii) the owner or operator of a continuing care home as
defined in the Continuing Care Act;
(iii), (iv) repealed 2008 cH-4.3 s16;
(v) a provincial hea lth agency under the Provincial Health
Agencies Act;
(v.1) a regional heal th authority under the Provincial Health
Agencies Act;
(vi) a provincial hea lth corporation under the Provincial
Health Agencies Act.
(2) Subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council,
the Minister may enter into an agreement providing for any or all
of the following:
(a) the disposition, by sale, lease or otherwise, of any
Government health care facility to a health board referred to
in subsection (1)(b)(i) or (ii);
(a.1) the disposition by lease of any Government health care
facility to a health board referred to in subsection (1)(b)(v)
or (vi);
(b) the disposition, by sale, lease or otherwise, to a health board
of all or any specified supplies, equipment or other personal
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property located in or used in connection with a
Government health care facility;
(c) the transfer of patients in a Government health care facility
and the responsibility for the care of those patients to the
care and responsibility of a health board;
(d) the transfer of employees of a Government health care
facility to the employment of a health board described in
clause (a), (b) or (c) and the transfer of any matters
incidental to those employees, including salary rates,
conditions of employment and pension plans.
(3) An agreement under this section may provide terms or
conditions with respect to the matters enumerated in subsection (2).
(4) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make any order the
Lieutenant Governor in Council considers necessary for the
purpose of implementing or facilitating any of the matters provided
for in an agreement or to alleviate any difficulty arising in the
course of implementing an agreement.
(5) A disposition, by sale, lease or otherwise, of a Government
health care facility or of personal property pursuant to an
agreement under this section may be made for a nominal
consideration or for a price less than its market value.
RSA 2000 cG-10 Sched. 7;2008 cH-4.3 s16;2022 cC-26.7 s69;
2024 c10 s18;2024 c16 s6;2025 c10 s23
Schedule 7.1 Repealed 2020 c35 s121.
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(1) In this section,
(a) "Architects Association" me ans The Alberta Association of
Architects under the Architects Act;
(b) "Engineers Association" means the Association of
Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta under
the Engineering and Geoscience Professions Act.
(2) There shall be a Joint Board of Practice composed of
(a) 4 persons appointed by the Council of the Architects
Association, and
(b) 4 persons appointed by the Council of the Engineers
Association,
and one chair from each Council appointed by the Minister from
among candidates mutually agreed to by both Councils.
(3) The function and operation of the Joint Board of Practice shall
be prescribed by agreement between the Council of the Architects
Association and the Council of the Engineers Association, and the
agreement shall include at least the following matters:
(a) rules of procedure;
(b) provisions respecting the a ssessment of applications for a
certificate of authorization under the Architects Act and
provisions respecting the assessment of applications for a
certificate of authorization under the Engineering and
Geoscience Professions Act;
(c) a procedure under which the Joint Board of Practice may act
as a mediator of complaints or disputes of an
interprofessional nature from members of the Architects
Association or the Engineers Association or from persons
who are not members when the complaint cannot be
resolved by each of those Associations individually or by
both of those Associations jointly;
(d) an undertaking to work on other matters of interprofessional
relations, including the co-ordination and publication of
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guidelines, standards and criteria and performance standards
in the field of building design and construction;
(e) provisions respecting recomm endations on applications for
authority to prepare final drawings for buildings with one
seal of either an engineer or an architect in cases where the
drawings would ordinarily fit within the category of design
that requires the seal of both professions under the
regulations authorized under the Safety Codes Act;
(f) a method of recommending to the Association concerned
that a qualified certificate of authorization limiting the scope
of practice in the other profession by an individual who is a
professional engineer or a registered architect be issued to
an applicant
(i) who has historically prov ided that service competently
in Alberta, and
(ii) who applied for the certificate before October 1, 1982;
(g) any other matters agreed to between the Councils of both
the Architects Association and the Engineers Association.
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(1) The Minister is by virtue of the Minister's office His
Majesty's Attorney General in and for the Province of Alberta.
(2) Except as otherwise provided in this section, the deputy
appointed for the Minister under section 4 of this Act is the Deputy
Attorney General.
(3) If the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers it advisable,
the Lieutenant Governor in Council may, in accordance with the
Public Service Act, appoint a person other than the deputy of the
Minister as Deputy Attorney General.
(4) The Deputy Attorney General referred to in subsection (2) or
appointed under subsection (3)
(a) is the deputy of the Minister in the Minister's capacity as
Attorney General in and for the Province of Alberta, and
(b) is a lawful deputy of the Attorney General in and for the
Province of Alberta under the Criminal Code (Canada) or
any other Act or any regulation of Canada.
In this Schedule,
(a) "committee" means a committ ee established pursuant to
section 3(1);
(b) "delegated person" means an individual, corporation or
municipality, other than a Provincial agency, as defined in
the Financial Administration Act, to which a delegation is
made under section 2;
(c) "official" means
(i) a board or corporation created by an Act or any of its
officials that is vested with a power, duty or function by
the Act or regulations under the Act;
(ii) an employee of the Crown in right of Alberta who is
employed as a deputy minister, chair, officer, inspector,
investigator, registrar, director or manager or in another
office named in an enactment and who is vested with a
power, duty or function by the enactment, but does not
include an officer of a court.
In this Schedule,
(a) "Crown" means the Crown in right of Alberta;
(b) "department" means a department of the Government and,
except in sections 2 and 3, includes
(i) a board, commission or organizational unit that forms
part of the public service of Alberta but is not part of a
department of the Government, and
(ii) a corporation that is an agent of the Crown;
(c) "supplies" means materials, equipment and other personal
property, and includes furnishings.
(1) In this Part,
(a) "registry" means a registry, document recording system,
information recording system, information bank, data bank
or similar system
(i) that is under the admini stration of the Minister, or
(ii) that is operated by the Government and that is not under
the administration of the Minister but for which the
Minister is requested to provide services or otherwise
deal with under this Part;
(b) "registry agent" means a person who is not an employee of
the Government and who enters into an agreement under
section 3 to carry out registry services for the public;
(c) "registry services" includes statutory functions and other
functions, services and products that are provided or made
available by or through the Government or one or more
registries;
(d) "statutory function" means a duty, task or other function
that is performed or otherwise carried out pursuant to an
enactment under or in the name of the office of a statutory
officer, but does not include the power to make regulations
under an enactment;
(e) "statutory officer" means a person who holds an office that
is established or otherwise provided for under an enactment
and includes the Minister.
(2) For the purposes of this Part,
(a) a reference to registrations includes
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(i) the registration of a document in a registry,
(ii) the recording of information in a registry,
(iii) the filing of a document in a registry,
(iv) the providing of a document or information to a registry
for the purpose of making a filing or registration in the
registry, and
(v) the issuance of a document by or in a registry under
which a person has title to or claims an interest in
property or that affects the status of property,
or any one or more of those functions, but does not include
the provision of information that is not provided as part of
the carrying out of a function referred to in subclauses (i) to
(v);
(b) a reference to a registry agent doing something or providing
registry services means a registry agent doing something or
providing registry services to, for or on behalf of a member
of the public when requested, directed or otherwise
authorized to do so by that member of the public;
(c) a reference to the public includes any individual,
organization, corporation, public institution or government
and their heirs, executors, administrators and other legal
representatives;
(d) a reference to document handling procedures means the
filing, sending, transmitting, recording, depositing,
production, reproduction, creation, issuance or registration
of any document or information or any procedure or method
that otherwise deals with any document or information;
(e) a reference to an enactment under which a registry operates
is a reference to the enactment under which the registry was
established or otherwise operates and is not a reference to
this Part or a regulation made under this Part.
(1) In this section, "housing" means
(a) buildings or structures suitable and adequate for human
habitation that are or are to be used primarily for that
purpose, or
(b) projects for the provision, construction or rehabilitation of
those buildings or structures,
and includes the infrastructure of, or the provision or construction
of infrastructure for, those buildings, structures or projects.
(2) The Minister, when authorized by regulations under subsection
(3), may make loans for the following:
(a) the cost of acquiring and preparing land for housing;
(b) the cost of improving or developing land for housing;
(c) the cost of designing, constructing, maintaining or
improving housing;
(d) the cost of providing sewer, water and other utilities in
respect of housing;
(e) any other purpose that the Mi nister considers incidental to
or proper, necessary or desirable in connection with
housing.
(3) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations
(a) authorizing the Minister to make loans in accordance with
and for the purposes mentioned in subsection (2);
(b) respecting the purposes for which loans may be made;
(c) governing applications for loans;
(d) respecting the persons or organizations or classes of persons
or organizations eligible for loans;
(e) respecting the conditions required to be met by any
applicant for a loan to render that person eligible for it;
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(f) respecting the conditions on which a loan is made and the
obligations of a person to whom a loan is made;
(g) respecting the class of securi ty that the Minister may require
to be given by applicants respecting a loan;
(h) limiting the amount of a loan or class of loan;
(i) authorizing the Minister to delegate in writing to any
employee or agent of the Government any duty or power
respecting the making of a loan;
(j) requiring a recipient to account for the way in which a loan
made by the Government is spent in whole or in part;
(k) authorizing the Minister to enter into an agreement with
respect to any matter relating to the making of a loan.
(4) Regulations made under subsection (3) may be specific or
general in their application.
(5) Notwithstanding subsection (3)(f), the Minister may impose
further conditions not prescribed in the regulations on the making
of a particular loan.
(6) The Minister may do all things necessary to realize on any
security given to the Government in consideration of a loan.
In this Schedule,
(a) "consumer" means a person who is
(i) an eligible customer as defined in the Rate of Last Resort
Regulation (AR 262/2005),
(ii) a consumer as defined in the Energy Marketing and
Residential Heat Sub-metering Regulation
(AR 246/2005),
(iii) a person who purchases fewer than 2500 gigajoules of
natural gas per year, or
(iv) a person who receives water from a provider for
(A) residential purposes,
(B) small business purposes, or
(C) agricultural purposes other than irrigation;
(b) "distributor" means
(i) an owner of an electric distribution system as defined in
the Electric Utilities Act, or
(ii) a gas distributor as defined in the Gas Utilities Act;
(c) "provider" means
(i) a rate of last resort provider as defined in the Electric
Utilities Act,
(ii) a default supply provider as defined under the Gas
Utilities Act, or
(iii) a person that provides water, sewage disposal or
drainage to a consumer and is
(A) a public utility under the Public Utilities Act,
(B) a public utility under the Municipal Government Act,
or
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(C) any other water utility regulated by the Alberta
Utilities Commission;
(d) "retailer" means
(i) a municipality as defined in the Municipal Government
Act,
(ii) a retailer as defined in the Electric Utilities Act, or
(iii) a retailer as defined in the Gas Utilities Act.
In this Schedule, "highway" or "road" means a highway, road or
street within the meaning of the Highways Development and
Protection Act.