Short title
1.
This Notice may be cited as the Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation Notice, 2003.
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Definitions
2.
In this Notice
(a)
"department" means the Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation; and
(b)
"minister" means the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Recreation.
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Department restructured and reconstituted
3.
(1) The department is restructured and reconstituted by Order in Council 2001-458 and Order in Council 2003-378 and the department is presided over by the minister.
(2)
The department has 3 branches, as follows:
(a)
Tourism;
(b)
Cultural Heritage; and
(c)
Natural Heritage and Recreation.
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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)
cultural activities in the province, including arts and culture centres, the Arts and Letters Committee, the Newfoundland
and Labrador Arts Council and the Newfoundland
and Labrador Film Development Corporation;
(b)
the historic resources of the province, including the Heritage Foundation, the provincial archives, museums established and operated by the province, and the archaeological and ethnology of the province;
(c)
the management, preservation, control, protection and development of
(i)
provincial parks, as defined in the Provincial Parks Act,
(ii)
provincial interests in all national parks established in the province by the Government of Canada, and
(iii)
wilderness and ecological reserves as defined in the Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act;
(d)
the provision of information and advice throughout the province with regard to incentives, loan facilities, programs and other benefits which are available both federally and provincially and for which the department is mandated;
(e)
tourist activities in the province, including
(i)
improvement throughout the province of accommodations, attractions, facilities and services for tourists,
(ii)
publicizing those aspects of the province's attributes that are considered to have an appeal for tourists, and
(iii)
support for and co-operation with the associations or other public or private organizations engaged in developing and promoting tourism in the province;
(f)
the encouragement, promotion, establishment, development, co-ordination and implementation of amateur sport fitness and recreational activities; and
(g)
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 purpose of those Acts,
which are not, or in so far as they are not, the responsibility of another minister, agency, body, corporation, board, organization or person.
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Repeal
5.
The Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation Notice
, Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 71/96, is repealed.
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Schedule
1.
Archives Act
2.
Arts Council Act
3.
Books Preservation of Copies Act
4.
Boxing Authority Act
5.
Colonial
Building
Act
6.
Cruiseship Authority Act
7.
Endangered Species Act
8.
Grand Concourse Authority Act
9.
Historic Resources Act
10.
Innkeepers Act
11.
National Parks Lands Act
12.
Newspapers and Books Act
13.
Provincial Parks Act
14.
Tourist Establishments Act
15.
Wild Life Act (with Forest
Resources and Agrifoods)
16.
Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act (with Forest
Resources and Agrifoods)
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