CPA · Government Organization Act
9 Delegation of powers and duties
duty or function conferred or imposed on the Minister by this Act
or any other enactment.
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to any power or duty of a
Minister to make regulations as defined in the Regulations Act.
RSA 2000 cG-10 s9;2014 c8 s3
The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations
(a) prohibiting, regulating or requiring the doing of any act for
the purpose of preventing, alleviating or stopping soil
erosion or anything detrimental to the protection or
preservation of a watershed;
(b) authorizing the payment of compensation by the Crown to
any person for loss or damage to that person as a result of
the application of any regulation under this Schedule to that
person, or an order under this Schedule directed to that
person, prescribing the cases in which the compensation
must be paid and the loss or damage for which the
compensation shall be paid, and conferring jurisdiction on
the Court of King's Bench or the Alberta Utilities
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Commission in connection with settlement of the
compensation to be paid;
(c) authorizing the Minister to expropriate on behalf of the
Crown any estate or interest in land if the Minister considers
it necessary to do so for the purpose of enforcing or carrying
out the provisions of this Schedule or the regulations or an
order under this Schedule;
(d) prescribing, with respect to any provision of any regulation
under this Schedule, that its contravention constitutes an
offence;
(e) prescribing penalties for offences against any regulations
under this Schedule;
(f) empowering the Minister to prescribe forms for any
document used in the course of administering this Schedule
or any Act administered by the Minister;
(g) generally, providing for any procedure or matter incidental
to the carrying out of this Schedule or any regulations under
this Schedule.
RSA 2000 cG-10 Sched. 5;2002 c30 s10;2002 c32 s8;
2003 c42 s8;2007 cA-37.2 s82(13);AR 217/2022
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(1) For the purpose of ensuring that this Schedule and the
regulations and rules under it are complied with, the Minister or a
person designated by the Minister may, without a warrant, at any
reasonable time, enter premises, other than a private dwelling,
where a delegated person or the person's employee, agent or officer
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or member of a committee is carrying out a delegated power, duty
or function and
(a) may inspect and make copies of any document related to the
carrying out of the delegated power, duty or function, and
(b) may carry out an audit of the delegated person with respect
to the delegated power, duty or function.
(2) On entering premises described in subsection (1), the Minister
or designated person shall, on request, produce identification and
provide advice on the power to carry out an inspection or audit.
(3) The Minister may charge the delegated person any reasonable
costs incurred in carrying out an audit under subsection (1) and that
charge is recoverable by the Minister as a debt due to the Crown.
(1) In this section, "local authority" means
(a) a municipality,
(b) a Metis settlement,
(c) in the case of an impr ovement district, the Minister
responsible for the Municipal Government Act, or
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(d) in the case of a special area, the Minister responsible for the
Special Areas Act.
(2) Without limiting section 10 of the Act, the Minister may enter
into and carry out an agreement with any local authority providing
for the laying out, construction or improvement of parks, public
places, public swimming pools or other public works that in the
opinion of the Minister and of the local authority are necessary or
desirable.
(3) Every local authority, notwithstanding the Municipal
Government Act or any other Act, may enter into and carry out an
agreement under subsection (2).
(4) The agreement shall fix
(a) the total cost of construction,
(b) the period of construction,
(c) the proportions of the cost to be borne by the Crown and the
local authority, and
(d) the terms on which and the times when payments are to be
made by the Crown for its part of the cost.
(1) Where an enactment provides that a statutory function is to be
carried out by a statutory officer and the carrying out of that
statutory function involves the production, creation or issuance of a
document containing the signature of the statutory officer, that
document is deemed to have been signed by the statutory officer if
the document
(a) sets out the signature of the person who is or was the
statutory officer, or
(b) sets out the seal of o ffice of the statutory officer.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)(b), the Minister may
approve the form of the seal of office to be used by a statutory
officer.
(3) Any signature or seal referred to in this section may be
reproduced by engraving, lithography or printing or by any
electronic or mechanical or other method of reproduction and when
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so reproduced has the same force and effect as if it had been
manually signed or affixed.