27 (1) The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations, (a)  designating a broadband project for the purposes of this Act; (b)  governing administrative penalties that may be imposed under section 24, and, without limiting the foregoing, may make regulations, (i)  prescribing provisions of this Act and of the regulations for the purpose of subsection 24 (2), except for sections 11 to 20 or regulations in respect of those provisions, (ii)  prescribing individuals for the purpose of subsection 24 (7), (iii)  prescribing the amount of a penalty, or a method for calculating the amount of a penalty, and prescribing different penalties or ranges of penalties for different types of contraventions or failures to comply and different penalties or ranges of penalties depending on specified criteria, (iv)  authorizing the Minister to determine the amount of a penalty, if the amount of the penalty or method for calculating the amount of the penalty is not prescribed, and prescribing criteria that may or must be considered when making an order under subsection 24 (2), including prescribing that the criteria may include aggravating or mitigating factors, (v)  authorizing that a penalty may be imposed for each day or part of a day on which a contravention or failure to comply continues, (vi)  authorizing higher penalties for a second or subsequent contravention or failure to comply, (vii)  governing the payment of penalties, including requiring that a penalty be paid before a specified deadline, and authorizing the Minister to approve a plan of periodic payments that extends beyond the deadline, (viii)  authorizing the imposition of late payment fees respecting penalties that are not paid before the specified deadline, including graduated late payment fees, and providing that such fees are included as part of the penalty for enforcement purposes, (ix)  prescribing a lesser maximum penalty and the provisions of this Act or the regulations to which the lesser maximum penalty applies, (x)  prescribing and governing procedures for making and serving an order under section 24, including prescribing rules for service, prescribing the day on which an order is deemed to have been received and providing for service on persons outside Ontario, (xi)  governing the review of an order under subsection 24 (7), including, (A)  establishing procedures for commencing and conducting a review, (B)  establishing time limits for the stages of a review and authorizing the person prescribed under subclause (ii) to extend any time limit, (C)  prescribing that the review must or may be conducted orally, electronically or in writing or authorizing the person prescribed under subclause (ii) to make that determination, and (D)  establishing criteria to be considered and criteria not to be considered by the person prescribed under subclause (ii) when determining what decision to make, (xii)  prescribing the form and content of orders under section 24, (xiii)  prescribing circumstances in which a person is not required to pay an administrative penalty, (xiv)  providing that an administrative penalty is payable to a prescribed person rather than to the Minister of Finance, and is a debt due to the person to whom it is payable, (xv)  providing for other matters to carry out the purpose of section 24. 2021, c. 2, Sched. 1, s. 27 (1). Minister (2) The Minister may make regulations, (a)  governing anything that, in this Act, is required or permitted to be prescribed or that is required or permitted to be done by, or in accordance with, the regulations, or as authorized, specified or provided for in the regulations, except for anything with respect to administrative penalties; (b)  clarifying the meaning of any term or phrase used in this Act that is not defined in this Act; (c)  exempting an entity from a provision of this Act and setting conditions for the exemption; (c.1)  governing the application of section 10.1, including, without restricting the generality of the foregoing, prescribing limits, restrictions, exceptions, qualifications or conditions with respect to what a municipality may treat as a condition of the applicable consent, permit or other approval or as a material deficiency or material issue for the purposes of that section; (d)  providing for other matters to carry out the purpose of this Act. 2021, c. 2, Sched. 1, s. 27 (2); 2023, c. 9, Sched. 3, s. 4. Adoption of documents in regulations (3) A regulation made under subsection (2) may adopt by reference, in whole or in part, with such changes as the Minister considers necessary, any document, including a code, formula, standard, protocol or procedure, and may require compliance with any document so adopted. 2021, c. 2, Sched. 1, s. 27 (3). Rolling incorporation by reference (4) The power to adopt by reference and require compliance with a document in subsection (3) includes the power to adopt a document as it may be amended from time to time. 2021, c. 2, Sched. 1, s. 27 (4). Publication (5) The OILC shall publish documents adopted under subsection (3) on the OILC’s website and shall make them publicly available in any other manner the OILC considers advisable. 2021, c. 2, Sched. 1, s. 27 (5). Section Amendments with date in force (d/m/y) 2023, c. 9, Sched. 3, s. 4 - 08/06/2023 28 Omitted (provides for amendments to this Act). 29-30 Omitted (amends, repeals or revokes other legislation). 31 Omitted
(provides for coming into force of provisions of this Act). 32 Omitted (enacts short title of this Act). ______________  Français