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appointed any employees required to enable each Minister to carry
out matters under the Minister's administration.
1994 cG-8.5 s5
(1) Where in the Minister's opinion a person has contravened
section 4 or the regulations under section 4, the Minister may issue
an enforcement order to that person ordering that person to do any
or all of the following:
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(a) cease the contravention specified in the order;
(b) stop any operations or shut down or stop the operation of
any plant, equipment or structure either permanently or for a
specified period;
(c) take any other measures that the Minister considers
necessary to
(i) facilitate compliance with the applicable provision, or
(ii) protect or rest ore the environment.
(2) An enforcement order shall contain the reasons for making it
and must be served on the person to whom it is directed.
(3) The Minister may by order
(a) amend a term or condition of, add a term or condition to or
delete a term or condition from an enforcement order,
(b) cancel an enforcement order, or
(c) amend a clerical error in an enforcement order.
(4) A copy of an order issued under subsection (3) must be served
on the same person to whom the original enforcement order was
directed.
(5) If the person to whom an enforcement order is directed fails to
comply with the enforcement order, the Minister may apply to the
Court of King's Bench for an order of the Court directing that
person to comply with the enforcement order.
(6) If the person to whom an enforcement order is directed fails to
comply with the enforcement order, the Minister may take
whatever action the Minister considers necessary to carry out the
terms of the enforcement order.
(7) Costs under this section are recoverable by the Government
(a) in an action in debt against the person to whom the
enforcement order was directed, or
(b) by order of the Minister directing any person who has
purchased land from the person to whom the enforcement
order was directed to pay to the Minister instead of to the
vendor an amount not exceeding the amount owing in
respect of the costs.
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(8) For the purposes of this section, the costs referred to in
subsection (7) include, without limitation, any costs incurred in
investigating and responding to
(a) any matter to which an enforcement order relates, or
(b) the failure to comply with an enforcement order.
(9) A purchaser who pays an amount to the Minister under
subsection (7)(b) is discharged from any obligation to pay that
amount to the vendor.
(1) The Minister is the Registrar of the Province.
(2) The Minister as Registrar shall register instruments of
summons, commissions, letters patent, writs and other instruments
and documents issued under the Great Seal of the Province.
(3) The signature of the Minister as Registrar is proof of the fact
that the registers, instruments of summons, commissions, letters
patent, writs and other instruments and documents exist and are
lawfully in the Minister's possession.
(4) A copy of a document signed by the Minister as Registrar is
equivalent to the original instrument itself when produced in a
court in Alberta.
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(5) Each document or copy of a document purporting to bear the
signature of the Minister as Registrar is deemed to bear the
Minister's signature until the contrary is proved.
With respect to a delegation, a delegated person and the
delegated person's employee, agent, director or officer or member
of a committee are not agents of the Crown.
The Minister may, on request, acquire supplies on behalf of, or
provide services to, approved hospitals as defined in the Provincial
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Health Agencies Act, schools, post-secondary educational
institutions, municipalities, Metis settlements and any
organizations that carry out services or programs on behalf of the
Government.
(1) A registry agent is an agent of the Crown in right of Alberta,
but only for the purposes of carrying out registry services as
permitted pursuant to this Part or the agreement entered into
between the Minister and the registry agent.
(2) Where a statutory function is carried out or purported to be
carried out by a registry agent, that statutory function is deemed to
have been carried out or purported to have been carried out by the
appropriate statutory officer.
This Schedule does not limit the authority of the Office of the
Utilities Consumer Advocate to collect, use or disclose information
when authorized to do so by any other enactment.
(1) The Minister may, in relation to airstrips and airports that are
or are to be under the Minister's administration,
(a) purchase land for an airstrip or airport or the site of any
structure incidental to the airstrip or airport;
(b) construct, operate and ma intain airstrips or airports;
(c) control traffic on and regulate the use of airstrips and
airports.
(2) There is no obligation on the Minister to construct or maintain
any airstrip or airport for public use.
RSA 2000 cG-10 Sched. 14;2003 c2 s1(25);
2003 c42 s8;2004 cH-8.5 s67
Schedule 15 Repealed 2014 c8 s3.
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