1st Session, 43rd Legislature

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Bill 16

THE REGULATORY ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING ACT AND AMENDMENTS TO THE STATUTES AND REGULATIONS ACT

(Assented to                                         )

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:

Regulatory Accountability Reporting Act

1   The Regulatory Accountability Reporting Act set out in Schedule A is hereby enacted.

Statutes and Regulations Amendment Act

2   The Statutes and Regulations Amendment Act set out in Schedule B is hereby enacted.

Coming into force

3(1)   Subject to subsection (2), this Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.

Coming into force of Schedules

3(2)   The Schedules to this Act come into force as provided in the coming into force section at the end of each Schedule.

SCHEDULE A

THE REGULATORY ACCOUNTABILITY REPORTING ACT

Report

1(1)   For each fiscal year, the minister charged with the administration of this Act must, subject to the regulations, prepare a report on the government's strategies and initiatives to eliminate duplicative and inconsistent regulatory and administrative requirements and evaluate the effectiveness of regulatory and administrative requirements in achieving public policy outcomes.

Tabling report

1(2)   The minister must

(a) make the report available to the public not later than six months after the end of the fiscal year to which it relates; and

(b) table a copy of the report in the Assembly on any of the first 15 days on which the Assembly is sitting after the minister prepares it.

Regulations

1(3)   The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations respecting the contents of the report.

Repeal

2   The Regulatory Accountability Act, S.M. 2017, c. 21, is repealed.

C.C.S.M. reference

3   This Act may be referred to as chapter R66 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba.

Coming into force — royal assent

4(1)   Subject to subsection (2), this Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.

Coming into force — retroactive date

4(2)   Section 2 is deemed to have come into force on March 31, 2024.

SCHEDULE B

THE STATUTES AND REGULATIONS AMENDMENT ACT

C.C.S.M. c. S207 amended

1   The Statutes and Regulations Act is amended by this Act.

2   The definition "administrative burden" in subsection 34.1(1) is repealed.

3   Clause 34.2(2)(d) is replaced with the following:

(d) imposes a new fee or fine or changes an existing fee or fine;

4(1)   Subsection 34.3(1) is replaced with the following:

Consultation on proposed regulations

34.3(1)   A proposed regulation that implements one or more new regulatory requirements or changes or eliminates one or more existing regulatory requirements must be published on a government website for at least 30 days to provide members of the public with an opportunity to comment on the proposed regulation.

4(2)   Subsection 34.3(2) is repealed.

4(3)   Subsection 34.3(5) is amended

(a) in the part before clause (a), by adding "this section does not apply." after "proposed regulation,"; and

(b) by repealing clauses (a) and (b).

5   Clauses 34.4(b) and (c), section 34.5 and subsection 34.7(3) are repealed.

6   Subsection 34.9(3) is amended by striking out "or section 34.5".

Coming into force

7   This Act comes into force on the day it receives royal assent.