Salaries Act
Transitional Provision
Consequential Amendment to the Financial Administration Act
Coordinating Amendments
Explanatory Notes
First Session, Forty-second Parliament,
64-65 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-24
An Act to amend the Salaries Act and to make a consequential amendment to the Financial Administration Act
FIRST READING, September 27, 2016
LEADER OF THE GOVERNMENT IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS
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RECOMMENDATION
His Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House of Commons the appropriation of public revenue under the circumstances, in the manner and for the purposes set out in a measure entitled “An Act to amend the Salaries Act and to make a consequential amendment to the Financial Administration Act”.
SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Salaries Act to authorize payment, out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, of the salaries for eight new ministerial positions. It authorizes the Governor in Council to designate departments to support the ministers who occupy those positions and authorizes those ministers to delegate their powers, duties or functions to officers or employees of the designated departments. It also makes a consequential amendment to the Financial Administration Act.
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1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 
64-65 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-24
An Act to amend the Salaries Act and to make a consequential amendment to the Financial Administration Act
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.‍S.‍, c. S-3
Salaries Act
1 The Salaries Act is amended by adding the following after section 1:
PART 1 
Salaries
2005, c. 16, s. 13, c. 16, s. 19(1); 2013, c. 33, s. 226(2)
2 (1) Paragraphs 4.‍1(3)‍(s) to (t.‍4) of the Act are repealed.
2013, c. 40, s. 215
(2) Paragraph 4.‍1(3)‍(z.‍21) of the Act is replaced by the following:
(z.‍21) the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities;
(3) Subsection 4.‍1(3) of the Act is amended by adding the following after paragraph (z.‍3):
(z.‍4) the Minister of La Francophonie;
(z.‍5) the Minister of Science;
(z.‍6) the Minister of Small Business and Tourism;
(z.‍7) the Minister of Sport and Persons with Disabilities;
(z.‍8) the Minister of Status of Women; and
(z.‍9) three additional ministers appointed by commission under the Great Seal.
3 The Act is amended by adding the following after section 4.‍2:
PART 2 
Support for Ministers Referred to in Paragraphs 4.‍1(3)‍(z.‍4) to (z.‍9)
Power to designate department
5 (1) The Governor in Council may, by order, designate a department to provide support to a minister referred to in any of paragraphs 4.‍1(3)‍(z.‍4) to (z.‍9) in the carrying out of his or her responsibilities.
Designated department
(2) A minister in respect of whom a department is designated under subsection (1)
(a) may use the services and facilities of that department; and
(b) may delegate to officers or employees of that department any of the minister’s powers, duties or functions.
Particular responsibilities
(3) The Governor in Council may, by order, designate a department to provide support to a minister referred to in any of paragraphs 4.‍1(3)‍(z.‍4) to (z.‍9) in the carrying out of the particular responsibilities that are specified in the order.
Designated department — particular responsibilities
(4) A minister in respect of whom a department is designated under subsection (3)
(a) must use the services and facilities of that department when carrying out the particular responsibilities that are specified in the order; and
(b) may delegate to officers or employees of that department any of the minister’s powers, duties or functions that are related to those particular responsibilities.
Financial Administration Act
(5) The appropriate Minister for a department that is designated under subsection (1) or (3) may delegate, to a minister in respect of whom that department is designated, any of the appropriate Minister’s powers, duties or functions referred to in sections 33 and 34, subsections 155(1) and (4) and sections 155.‍1 and 155.‍2 of the Financial Administration Act or the power to write off debts in accordance with regulations made under subsection 25(1) of that Act.
Department of Public Works and Government Services Act
(6) If the Minister of Public Works and Government Services delegates, under subsection 8(1) of the Department of Public Works and Government Services Act, any of the Minister’s powers, duties or functions under that Act to the appropriate Minister for a department that is designated under subsection (1) or (3), that appropriate Minister may subdelegate to a minister in respect of whom that department is designated any of the powers, duties or functions that were delegated to that appropriate Minister under that subsection 8(1).
Definitions
(7) The following definitions apply in this section.
appropriate Minister has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Financial Administration Act. (ministre compétent)
department means a department named in Schedule I to the Financial Administration Act, a division or branch of the federal public administration set out in column I of Schedule I.‍1 to that Act and a corporation named in Schedule II to that Act. (ministère)
Transitional Provision
Transfer of powers, duties or functions
4 If, under any Act of Parliament, any instrument made under an Act of Parliament or any order, contract, lease, licence or other document, any power, duty or function is vested in or may be exercised or performed by the Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs, that power, duty or function is vested in or may be exercised or performed by the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.
R.‍S.‍, c. F-11
Consequential Amendment to the Financial Administration Act
Minister of Infrastructure and Communities
5 The reference to the “Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs” in column II of Schedule I.‍1 to the Financial Administration Act is replaced by a reference to the “Minister of Infrastructure and Communities”.
Coordinating Amendments
2004, c. 16
6 (1) In this section, “other Act” means the Amendments and Corrections Act, 2003.
(2) If section 25 of the other Act comes into force before section 3 of this Act, then
(a) that section 3 is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed;
(b) the heading before section 5 and sections 5 and 6 of the Salaries Act, as enacted by that section 25, are repositioned after section 4.‍2 of that Act; and
(c) the Salaries Act is amended by adding the following after section 6:
PART 2 
Support for Ministers Referred to in Paragraphs 4.‍1(3)‍(z.‍4) to (z.‍9)
Power to designate department
7 (1) The Governor in Council may, by order, designate a department to provide support to a minister referred to in any of paragraphs 4.‍1(3)‍(z.‍4) to (z.‍9) in the carrying out of his or her responsibilities.
Designated department
(2) A minister in respect of whom a department is designated under subsection (1)
(a) may use the services and facilities of that department; and
(b) may delegate to officers or employees of that department any of the minister’s powers, duties or functions.
Particular responsibilities
(3) The Governor in Council may, by order, designate a department to provide support to a minister referred to in any of paragraphs 4.‍1(3)‍(z.‍4) to (z.‍9) in the carrying out of the particular responsibilities that are specified in the order.
Designated department — particular responsibilities
(4) A minister in respect of whom a department is designated under subsection (3)
(a) must use the services and facilities of that department when carrying out the particular responsibilities that are specified in the order; and
(b) may delegate to officers or employees of that department any of the minister’s powers, duties or functions that are related to those particular responsibilities.
Financial Administration Act
(5) The appropriate Minister for a department that is designated under subsection (1) or (3) may delegate, to a minister in respect of whom that department is designated, any of the appropriate Minister’s powers, duties or functions referred to in sections 33 and 34, subsections 155(1) and (4) and sections 155.‍1 and 155.‍2 of the Financial Administration Act or the power to write off debts in accordance with regulations made under subsection 25(1) of that Act.
Department of Public Works and Government Services Act
(6) If the Minister of Public Works and Government Services delegates, under subsection 8(1) of the Department of Public Works and Government Services Act, any of the Minister’s powers, duties or functions under that Act to the appropriate Minister for a department that is designated under subsection (1) or (3), that appropriate Minister may subdelegate to a minister in respect of whom that department is designated any of the powers, duties or functions that were delegated to that appropriate Minister under that subsection 8(1).
Definitions
(7) The following definitions apply in this section.
appropriate Minister has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Financial Administration Act. (ministre compétent)
department means a department named in Schedule I to the Financial Administration Act, a division or branch of the federal public administration set out in column I of Schedule I.‍1 to that Act and a corporation named in Schedule II to that Act. (ministère)
(3) If section 3 of this Act comes into force before section 25 of the other Act, then
(a) the portion of that section 25 before the heading that it enacts is replaced by the following:
25 The Salaries Act is amended by adding the following after section 4.‍2:
(b) on the day on which that section 25 comes into force, section 5 of the Salaries Act, as enacted by section 3 of this Act, is renumbered as section 7.
(4) If section 25 of the other Act comes into force on the same day as section 3 of this Act, then that section 25 is deemed to have come into force before that section 3 and subsection (2) applies as a consequence.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons
EXPLANATORY NOTES
Salaries Act
Clause 1: New.
Clause 2: (1) and (2) Relevant portion of subsection 4.‍1(3):
(3) Despite subsection 4(2), for the fiscal year commencing on April 1, 2004 the annual salary of the following ministers, being members of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada, is $67,800:
.‍.‍. 
(s) the Minister of Western Economic Diversification;
(t) the Member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada appointed by Commission under the Great Seal to be the Minister for the purposes of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency Act;
(t.‍1) the Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec;
(t.‍2) the Minister of the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario;
(t.‍3) the Minister of the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario;
(t.‍4) the Minister of the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency;
.‍.‍. 
(z.‍21) the Minister of Infrastructure, Communities and Intergovernmental Affairs; and
(3) New.
Clause 3: New.