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Newfoundland and Labrador
Regulation 2019


NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR REGULATION 102/19

NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
REGULATION 102/19

Department of Transportation and Works Notice
under the
Executive Council Act
(O.C. 2017-037)

(Filed December 19, 2019)

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, December 18, 2019.

Elizabeth Day
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

        6.   Repeal

Schedule A

Schedule B

Schedule C


Short title

        1. This Notice may be cited as the Department of Transportation and Works Notice.

Definitions

        2. In this Notice

             (a)  "department" means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the Department of Transportation and Works; and

             (b)  "minister" means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the Minister of Transportation and Works.

Departmental structure

        3. (1) The department was restructured by Order in Council 2017-037.

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

             (3)  The department has 4 branches, as follows:

             (a)  Air and Marine Services;

             (b)  Infrastructure;

             (c)  Operations; and

             (d)  Strategic and Corporate Services.          

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)  design, construction, improvement, repair and maintenance of highways, local roads, airstrips, ferry landings, railways and related facilities and the acquisition of property related to highways, local roads, airstrips, ferries and related facilities;

             (b)  the acquisition, use, maintenance and operation of ferries under ownership, charter or administration;

             (c)  the acquisition, use, maintenance and operation of provincial air ambulance, waterbomber and other aircraft and services under ownership, charter or administration;

             (d)  property that belongs to or is held or occupied by the Crown, and the works and properties acquired, constructed, extended, enlarged, repaired or improved at the expense of the province, or for the acquisition, construction, extension, enlargement, repair or improvement of which public funds are voted and appropriated by the Legislature, other than property and works assigned under another Act to another minister or department of the government of the province;

             (e)  property management generally including the design, construction, repair, maintenance, heating, lighting, cleaning and security of buildings that belong to or are held or occupied by the Crown and grounds that belong to those buildings;

             (f)  the leasing of real property by the Crown and related activities; and

             (g)  the disposition of surplus provincial assets and real property;

             (h)  subject to the Public Procurement Act,

                      (i)  a role in the procurement, distribution, control, furnishing of supplies, including the providing, purchasing, advice or other assistance to government departments or public institutions or otherwise acquiring of goods, services and supplies required in the public service of the province, including public institutions, to attain the best value for government, and

                     (ii)  the establishment, maintenance and operation of depots or warehouses in which supplies may be stored and from which they may be distributed; and

              (i)  highway signage,

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.

Repeal

        6. The Department of Works, Services and Transportation Notice, 2003, Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 91/03, is repealed.


Schedule A

              1.  Expropriation Act

              2.  Local Road Boards Act

              3.  Rail Service Act, 2009


Schedule B

              1.  Family Homes Expropriation Act (with Municipal Affairs and Environment)

              2.  Works, Services and Transportation Act (with Service Newfoundland and Labrador)


Schedule C

              1.  Highway Traffic Act (with Service Newfoundland and Labrador)

              2.  Muskrat Falls Project Land Use and Expropriation Act (with Natural Resources, Fisheries and Land Resources and Municipal Affairs and Environment )