NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 8/25

Department of Environment and Climate Change Notice
under the
Executive Council Act
(O.C.2022-133)

(Filed February 3, 2025)

Under the authority of section 5 of the Executive Council Act, the Lieutenant-Governor in Council gives the following Notice.

Dated at St. John’s, January 31, 2025.

Krista Quinlan
Clerk of the Executive Council

NOTICE

Analysis

        1.   Short title

        2.   Definitions

        3.   Departmental structure

        4.   Powers and duties of the minister

        5.   Administration of Acts

Schedule A
Schedule B
Schedule C

Short title

        1. This Notice may be cited as the Department of Environment and Climate Change Notice.

Definitions

        2. In this Notice

             (a)  "department" means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the Department of Environment and Climate Change; and

             (b)  "minister" means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

Departmental structure

        3. (1) The department was restructured by Order in Council 2022-133.

             (2)  The department is presided over by the minister.

             (3)  The department consists of 3 branches, as follows:

             (a)  Climate Change;

             (b)  Environment; and               

             (c)  Labour.

Powers and duties of the minister

        4. The powers, functions and duties of the minister include the supervision, control and direction of all matters relating to

             (a)  the protection of the environment through programs and standards for waste management, pollution prevention, air emissions and impacted sites;

             (b)  protected areas;

             (c)  environmental assessment;

             (d)  the conservation, development, control, improvement and proper utilization of the water resources of the province;

             (e)  policy development, as well as coordination and monitoring of implementation activities for climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures;

             (f)  the regulation, mitigation and control of measures related to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; and

             (g)  regulation of labour relations, terms and conditions of employment and labour standards, the conciliation and mediation of labour disputes and the encouragement of effective relations between employers and employees,

which are not, or in so far as they are not, the responsibility of another minister, agency, body, corporation, board, organization or person.

Administration of Acts

        5. (1) The minister has sole responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in Schedule A and of all orders and regulations passed or made under those Acts, including those powers, functions or duties necessary or desirable for carrying out the purposes of those Acts.

             (2)  The minister and the minister of the departments indicated in Schedules B and C share responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in Schedules B and C and of the orders and regulations passed or made under those Acts, including those powers, functions or duties necessary or desirable for carrying out the purposes of those Acts.

             (3)  The minister has primary responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in Schedule B and secondary responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in Schedule C.

Schedule A

1.   Employers' Liability Act

2.   Essential Ambulance Services Act

              3.  Fishing Industry Collective Bargaining Act

              4.  Interns and Residents Collective Bargaining Act

              5.  Labour Relations Act

              6.  Labour Standards Act        

              7.  Management of Greenhouse Gas Act

              8.  National Parks Lands Act 

              9.  Public Service Collective Bargaining Act

            10.  Shops' Closing Act

            11.  Sustainable Development Act

            12.  Teachers' Collective Bargaining Act     

            13.  Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act

Schedule B

              1.  Environmental Protection Act (with Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador)    

              2.  Water Resources Act (with Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador)

Schedule C

              1.  Muskrat Falls Project Land Use and Expropriation Act (with Industry, Energy and Technology, Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture and Transportation and Infrastructure)

3.   Pay Equity and Pay Transparency Act (with minister responsible for Women and Gender Equality)

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