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RTA Residential Tenancies Act

RTA · Interpretation Act

25 Ancillary powers

Current to 2025-09-01 · Official PDF

(1) If in an enactment anything is required or authorized to be
done by or before a justice of the peace or public officer, it shall be
done by or before one whose jurisdiction or powers extend to the
place where the thing is to be done.
(2) If in an enactment power is given to a person to do or enforce
the doing of any act or thing, all other powers that are necessary to
enable the person to do or enforce the doing of the act or thing are
deemed to be given also.
(3) If in an enactment a power is conferred or a duty imposed, the
power may be exercised and the duty shall be performed from time
to time as occasion requires.
(4) If in an enactment a power is conferred to make regulations,
the power shall be construed as including a power exercisable in a
similar manner, and subject to a similar consent and conditions, if
any, to repeal or amend the regulations and to make others.
(5) If in an enactment the doing of an act that is expressly
authorized is dependent on the doing of any other act by the
Lieutenant Governor in Council or by a public officer, the
Lieutenant Governor in Council or public officer, as the case may
be, has the power to do that other act.
RSA 1980 cI-7 s23
RSA 2000