Part 7 — General
65 Regulations
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(a) governing fire protection and the safe design, manufacture,
construction, sale, installation, use, operation, occupancy
and maintenance of
(i) buildings,
(ii) electrical systems,
(iii) elevating devices,
(iv) fire protection systems and equipment,
(v) gas systems,
(vi) plumbing systems,
(vii) pressure equipment, and
(viii) private sewage disposal systems;
(b) respecting the requirements for designs to be signed or have
stamps or seals affixed by persons licensed or registered
under the Architects Act or the Engineering and Geoscience
Professions Act or any other enactment governing a
profession or occupation;
(c) respecting exclusions from the definitions of
(i) building,
(ii) electrical system,
(iii) gas,
(iv) gas system,
(v) plumbing system, and
(vi) private sewage disposal system,
for the purposes of this Act;
(d) respecting the designation of any thing as an elevating
device;
(e) defining for the purposes of this Act
(i) a passenger elevator, fre ight elevator, dumbwaiter,
emergency elevator, escalator, inclined passenger lift,
manlift, passenger ropeway, material lift, moving walk,
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personnel hoist, lift for persons with disabilities or
amusement ride, and
(ii) boilers, pressure vessels, pressure piping systems and
fittings, fired-heater pressure coils and thermal liquid
heating systems;
(e.1) governing barrier-free design and access;
(e.2) defining for the purposes of this Act principles of
barrier-free design and access;
(f) governing the qualifications and the evaluation of the
qualifications of safety codes officers and applicants for and
holders of permits and certificates of competency;
(g) designating things, processes or activities with respect to
which a certificate of competency or permit is required and
establishing the classifications of certificates of competency
and permits;
(h) governing the issuance, display, making available,
suspension, renewal and cancellation of permits and
certificates of competency;
(i) governing the provision of identification of safety codes
officers and the use of the identification;
(i.1) respecting the investment of money for the purpose of
section 21(3);
(i.2) respecting the request of the Minister and recommendations
regarding a question or matter relating to an accreditation
overlap referred to in section 29(3);
(i.3) respecting the administrative penalties referred to in section
57.1, including regulations
(i) respecting notices of administrative penalty, their form
and contents;
(ii) respecting the amount of an administrative penalty;
(iii) respecting any other matter the Lieutenant Governor in
Council considers necessary or advisable to carry out the
intent and purpose of the system of administrative
penalties;
(i.4) respecting the suspension, reduction and withdrawal of
administrative penalties under section 57.2;
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(i.5) respecting the form and contents of a notice of appeal of
administrative penalty referred to in section 57.3(1);
(i.6) designating a body as the appeal body for the hearing of
appeals from notices of administrative penalty referred to in
section 57.3(1) or respecting the establishment of an appeal
body for the hearing of appeals from notices of
administrative penalty referred to in section 57.3(1);
(i.7) respecting the conduct of appeals before the appeal body
referred to in section 57.3, including
(i) adjournments of matters before the appeal body;
(ii) the attendance of witn esses before the appeal body;
(iii) the applicability of the rules of evidence in judicial
proceedings to hearings before the appeal body;
(iv) the receiving and recording of evidence;
(v) empowering the appeal body to proceed when a party to
the appeal fails to appear at or attend a hearing;
(vi) empowering the appeal bod y to require the production of
any record, object or thing;
(vii) the reconsideration of decisions made by the appeal
body;
(viii) costs;
(i.8) respecting the subsequent actions before a court following a
notice of administrative penalty referred to in section
57.3(5);
(i.9) respecting the enforcement of administrative penalties under
section 57.4;
(j) respecting forms for the purposes of this Act;
(k) governing the information systems referred to in section 58,
including
(i) the information, including personal information, to be
included in an information system,
(ii) the release of info rmation, including personal
information, from an information system under section
63, and
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(iii) the portion of the information in an information system,
including personal information, that may be made
available to the public in response to a search request
referred to in section 63(4);
(k.1) governing
(i) the content of a municipal bylaw referred to in section
66(2)(b.1) respecting private sewage disposal systems,
and
(ii) the manner in which a municipality may make a
municipal bylaw referred to in section 66(2)(b.1)
respecting private sewage disposal systems;
(l) governing orders and the service of orders, notices and other
documents;
(m) governing the preparation, submission and retention of
reports and information and the reporting of unsafe
conditions, accidents and fires;
(n) governing designs;
(o) governing quality management systems;
(p) governing accredited municipalities, accredited regional
services commissions, accredited corporations, accredited
agencies and the Authority.
(2) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may, by regulation,
(a) declare in force a code, standa rd or body of rules relating to
the matters set out in subsection (1) and require compliance;
(b) amend or repeal a code, stan dard or body of rules declared
in force before or after the coming into force of this
subsection.
(3) A code, standard or body of rules may be declared in force
under subsection (2)
(a) in whole or in part and with variations or disclaimers, and
(b) as it read on a specified da y or as amended or replaced from
time to time.
(4) If a code, standard or body of rules is declared in force as
amended or replaced from time to time, any amendments to the
code, standard or body of rules or replacement of the code,
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standard or body of rules comes into force on the first day of the
month following the expiry of 12 months after the date on which
the amendment or replacement is published, unless the Minister
publishes an order in Part I of The Alberta Gazette declaring
(a) that the amendment or replacement will not be in force on
the expiry of 12 months following the date on which the
amendment was published, or
(b) that the coming into for ce of the amendment or replacement
is to occur on an earlier or later date.
(5) Regulations under this section may apply generally or
specifically and may provide for which provision of which
regulation prevails in the case of a conflict between the regulations.
(6) Before making a regulation under this section, the Lieutenant
Governor in Council shall ensure that the Council has the
opportunity to review the proposed regulation for a period of 90
days prior to the regulation's being made unless the Council has
waived or reduced that period.
(7) Before making a regulation referred to in subsection (2), the
Lieutenant Governor in Council shall ensure that the code,
standard, body of rules, amendment or replacement is published,
whether by the Council or another association or person, and
available to the public.
(8) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations
respecting
(a) the determination of the date on which an amendment or
replacement of a code, standard or body of rules was
published;
(b) the timely review, amendment, repeal and replacement of
codes, standards and bodies of rules;
(c) the timely commencement of codes, standards and bodies of
rules, amendments, repeals and replacements.
RSA 2000 cS-1 s65;2001 c28 s19;2004 c19 s6;
2011 c3 s33;2015 c10 s39