Definitions of Regulations

• Author: Susan Barker, Erica Anderson
• Pages: 247-256

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appendix one

Denitions of Regulations

FEDERAL

Statutory Instruments Act, RSC 1985, c S-22

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Denitions

2 (1) In this Act,

prescribedmeans prescribed by regulations made pursuant to this Act;

regulationmeans a statutory instrument

(a) made in the exercise of a legislative power conferred by or under

an Act of Parliament, or

(b) for the contravention of which a penalty, ne or imprisonment

is prescribed by or under an Act of Parliament,

and includes a rule, order or regulation governing the practice or

procedure in any proceedings before a judicial or quasi-judicial

body established by or under an Act of Parliament, and any instru-

ment described as a regulation in any other Act of Parliament;

regulation-making authoritymeans any authority authorized to make

regulations and, with reference to any particular regulation or pro-

posed regulation, means the authority that made or proposes to

make the regulation;