2nd Session, 41st Legislature
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Bill 20
THE CROWN CORPORATIONS GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY ACT
Section |
Table of Contents |
PART 1 | |
DEFINITIONS AND APPLICATION | |
1 | Definitions |
2 | Application of Act |
3(1) | Conflict with other Acts |
(2) | Acts to be read consistently |
ROLES, MANDATES AND DIRECTIVES | |
4(1) | Roles and responsibilities record |
(2) | Content |
(3) | Amendment |
(4) | Corporation and responsible minister must sign record |
5 | Review |
6(1) | Mandate letter |
(2) | Term |
(3) | Preparation and consistency of letters |
(4) | When mandate letter becomes effective |
7(1) | Annual business plan |
(2) | Content |
(3) | Consistency |
(4) | Timing |
8 | Guidelines for annual business plans |
9(1) | Records, plans and directives to be public |
(2) | Manner of making public |
10(1) | Annual reporting on outcomes |
(2) | Tabling reports in Assembly |
(3) | Annual reports referred |
11 | Quarterly financial statements for first three quarters |
12 | Non-compliance statements |
13(1) | Directives |
(2) | Accounting standards apply |
(3) | Compliance |
(4) | Directives to be made public |
14(1) | Disclosure of information |
(2) | Limits on personal information |
(3) | Duty to adopt security safeguards |
(4) | Safeguards for sensitive information |
15(1) | Powers of minister |
(2) | Responsibility for audit expenses |
(3) | Other expenses |
PART 3 | |
CROWN BOARDS | |
16(1) | Duties of boards |
(2) | Conflict of interest guidelines |
17(1) | Board responsible to minister |
(2) | Chair's report |
(3) | No ministers on boards |
18(1) | Power of board |
(2) | Committees of boards |
19(1) | Duty of directors and officers |
(2) | Reliance on statements |
20(1) | Disclosure of interest in contract |
(2) | Time for disclosure by director |
(3) | Time for disclosure by officer |
(4) | Time for disclosure by officer or director |
(5) | Voting |
(6) | Participation at meetings |
(7) | Continuing disclosure |
(8) | Avoidance standards |
(9) | Application to Court of Queen's Bench |
21(1) | Audit committee |
(2) | Duties of audit committee |
(3) | Notice of meeting of audit committee |
(4) | Who may call meeting of audit committee |
22(1) | Liability of directors |
(2) | Liability of directors and officers |
(3) | Other statutory obligations, etc. |
23 | Appointment of directors |
24(1) | Labour management committee |
(2) | Not collective bargaining |
PART 4 | |
PUBLIC UTILITIES BOARD | |
REVIEW OF RATES | |
25(1) | Hydro and MPIC rates review |
(2) | Definition: "rates for services" |
(3) | Application of Public Utilities Board Act |
(4) | Factors to be considered, hearings |
(5) | MPIC |
(6) | Manitoba Hydro |
26(1) | Multi-year approvals |
(2) | Increases not cumulative |
(3) | Changed circumstances |
27 | Compensation or refunds |
PART 5 | |
GENERAL | |
28 | Fiscal year of corporations |
29 | Regulations |
PART 6 | |
TRANSITIONAL AND CONSEQUENTIAL | |
AMENDMENTS | |
30(1) | Transition — council dissolved |
(2) | Continuation of proceedings |
31 | Consequential amendment, C.C.S.M. c. C150.1 |
32 | Consequential amendment, C.C.S.M. c. H190 |
33 | Consequential amendments, C.C.S.M. c. L155 |
34 | Consequential amendment, C.C.S.M. c. P215 |
35 | Consequential amendments, C.C.S.M. c. P265 |
36 | Consequential amendment, C.C.S.M. c. P280 |
37 | Consequential amendment, C.C.S.M. c. R31 |
38(1) | Consequential amendments, C.C.S.M. c. S270 |
(2) | |
(3) | |
PART 7 | |
REPEAL, C.C.S.M. REFERENCE | |
AND COMING INTO FORCE | |
39 | Repeal |
40 | C.C.S.M. reference |
41(1) | Coming into force |
(2) | Coming into force: subsection 25(6) |