Short title

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

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Definitions

        2. In this Notice

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

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

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Departmental structure

        3. (1) The department was restructured by Order in Council 2022-188.

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

             (3)  The department has 5 branches, as follows:

             (a)  Air and Marine Services;

             (b)  Infrastructure;

             (c)  Building Operations;

             (d)  Roads; and

             (e)  Strategic and Corporate Services.

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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)  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, including school facilities, that belong to or are held or occupied by the Crown and grounds that belong to those buildings;

             (f)  the management of government investments in municipal infrastructure;

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

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

              (i)  highway signage; and

              (j)  transportation of students to and from school,

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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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 Act set out in Schedule B and secondary responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in Schedule C.

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Repeal

        6. The Department of Transportation and Works Notice, Newfoundland and Labrador Regulation 102/19, is repealed.

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Schedule A

              1.  Expropriation Act

              2.  Local Road Boards Act

               3.  Rail Service Act, 2009

              4.  Works, Services and Transportation Act

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Schedule B

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

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Schedule C

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

              2.  Muskrat Falls Project Land Use and Expropriation Act (with Industry, Energy and Technology, Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture and Environment and Climate Change)

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