NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 14/25

Department of Labrador Affairs Notice
under the
Executive Council Act
(O.C.2023-054)

(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

Short title

        1. This Notice may be cited as the Department of Labrador Affairs Notice.

Definitions

        2. In this Notice

             (a)  "department" means the Department of Labrador Affairs; and

             (b)  "minister" means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the Minister of Labrador Affairs.

Departmental structure

        3. (1) The department was created by Order in Council 2023-054.

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

             (3)  The department has 2 branches, as follows:

             (a)  Labrador Affairs; and

             (b)  Medical Transportation Assistance Programs.

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 advancement of the social and economic development of Labrador in the formation of government policy and in the delivery of provincial programs and services in Labrador;

             (b)  the administration of Labrador-specific programs and grants that include

                      (i)  the Labrador Transportation Grooming Subsidy,

                     (ii)  the Labrador Aboriginal Nutritional and Artistic Assistance Program,

                    (iii)  the Labrador Sport Travel Subsidy Program and School Sport NL Labrador Travel Program, and

                    (iv)  the Labrador Winter Games; and

             (c)  the administration of the medical transportation assistance programs for all areas of the province,        

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. The minister has responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in the Schedule 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.

Schedule

1.   Labrador Act

2.   Labrador Inuit Land Claims Agreement Act

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