Note: It does not reflect any retroactive amendment enacted after December 4, 2013.
To find out if an amendment is retroactive, see the coming-into-force provisions
at the end of the amending Act.
C.C.S.M. c. S185
The Special Operating Agencies Financing Authority Act
(Assented to June 24, 1992)
HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, enacts as follows:
In this Act,
"agency" means a special operating agency; (« organisme »)
"Financing Authority" means the Special Operating Agencies Financing Authority established by this Act; (« Office de financement »)
"management agreement" means an agreement made under this Act between the Financing Authority and the minister responsible for the administration of an agency; (« accord de gestion »)
"operating charter" means an operating charter established for an agency under this Act; (« charte »)
"special operating agency" means a special operating agency designated under this Act. (« organisme de service spécial »)
Financing Authority established
The Special Operating Agencies Financing Authority is hereby established as a body corporate consisting of one or more persons appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
The object and purpose of the Financing Authority is to provide a method of funding the operations of certain of the agencies designated under this Act and to acquire and hold assets required for or resulting from those operations.
Direction of Minister of Finance
The affairs of the Financing Authority shall be under the direction and control of the Minister of Finance.
The Minister of Finance may delegate to any person any of the powers conferred upon him or her by this Act.
The Financing Authority may, subject to this Act and to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council and, except as in this Act otherwise provided, not contrary to any other Act of the Legislature,
(a) enter into agreements with any person or the representative of any government, for its own purposes or the purposes of an agency;
(b) enter into management agreements with the minister responsible for the administration of any agency;
(c) in its own name, acquire, hold, manage and dispose of, by sale, lease or otherwise, any real property or an interest therein, for its own purposes or for the purposes of an agency;
(d) in its own name, acquire and dispose of any personal property, for its own purposes or for the purposes of an agency.
Additional powers of Financing Authority
The Financing Authority may, subject to this Act and, except as in this Act otherwise provided, not contrary to any other Act of the Legislature,
(a) make by-laws for the conduct of its affairs;
(b) make rules for its own procedure;
(c) expend money for its own purposes or the purposes of an agency;
(d) exercise such other powers as are conferred upon it by or under this Act.
Fiscal year of Financing Authority
The fiscal year of the Financing Authority shall be the same as the fiscal year of the government.
The Financing Authority may employ, under The Civil Service Act, such persons as it considers necessary for its purposes, and the provisions of The Civil Service Superannuation Act apply to those employees.
The Financing Authority may, from time to time and for such periods as it considers necessary for its purposes, utilize the services of any person employed in a department of the government, subject to the approval of the minister of that department.
The remuneration of any person employed under subsection (1) or whose services are utilized under subsection (2) may be paid by the Financing Authority out of its own funds.
Advances from Consolidated Fund
The funds required by the Financing Authority for the purposes of this Act may be advanced to it from the Consolidated Fund with money authorized by an Act of the Legislature to be so paid and applied.
The Minister of Finance with the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council may, without legislative authority other than this section, advance to the Financing Authority from time to time, from the Consolidated Fund, for use as working capital, such sums as the Minister of Finance may consider necessary for the purposes of this Act.
All money advanced to the Financing Authority under subsections (1) and (2) shall be repaid by the Financing Authority to the Consolidated Fund at such times, on such terms and with such interest as the Lieutenant Governor in Council may direct.
In addition to the money advanced to it under section 9, the Financing Authority may receive money from any source whatsoever for its purposes or the purposes of an agency.
Designation of special operating agencies
The Lieutenant Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance,
(a) by regulation, designate any department, division, branch or program of the government as a special operating agency for the purposes of this Act; and
(b) establish an operating charter for the agency designated under clause (a), containing terms, conditions and other provisions governing its operations and not inconsistent with this or any other Act of the Legislature.
Regulations Act not applicable
The Regulations Act does not apply to the establishment of an operating charter for an agency under clause (1)(b).
Amendment of operating charters
The operating charter of an agency may be amended from time to time by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance.
Where the operating charter of an agency so provides and subject to the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, the Financing Authority may enter into a management agreement with the minister responsible for the administration of the agency, not inconsistent with this or any other Act of the Legislature and providing for
(a) the management of the agency's financial operations; and
(b) such other matters as the Financing Authority and the minister consider necessary.
Each agency shall perform its duties and functions and conduct its operations in accordance with the provisions of its operating charter, its management agreement, if any, and this Act and, except as in this Act otherwise provided, not contrary to any other Act of the Legislature.
The Lieutenant Governor in Council may at any time, on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance and on terms and conditions approved by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, revoke the designation of the agency and cancel its operating charter, and upon the revocation and cancellation the agency ceases to be a special operating agency and ceases to be subject to this Act.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in The Financial Administration Act, where an agency is governed by a management agreement,
(a) the money required to be expended for the purpose of carrying out the duties and functions of the agency, including the remuneration of the agency's staff, shall be paid by the Financing Authority on the requisition of the minister responsible for the administration of the agency or the person delegated for the purpose by that minister; and
(b) any money received by or for the agency shall be paid to the Financing Authority.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in The Financial Administration Act, any money advanced or credited to or received by the Financing Authority under this Act shall be paid to the Minister of Finance who shall deposit the money, for banking purposes, to the credit of the Financing Authority,
(a) in the Consolidated Fund, in trust; or
(b) in a bank, trust company or credit union in Manitoba;
as the Minister of Finance considers advisable.
Any money on deposit to the credit of the Financing Authority under section 17 that is not immediately required for the purposes of the Financing Authority or any agency and is available for investment may be invested on behalf of the Financing Authority in accordance with The Financial Administration Act, and the interest earnings thereon shall be credited to the account of the Financing Authority.
Any money required to be paid from time to time by the Financing Authority for its own purposes or for the purposes of an agency shall be paid by the Minister of Finance out of the money on deposit to the credit of the Financing Authority under section 17.
The Minister of Finance, with the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, may transfer to a revenue account in the Consolidated Fund as general revenue of the government any money on deposit to the credit of the Financing Authority under section 17 that is designated by the Minister of Finance with the approval of the Lieutenant Governor in Council as surplus money of the Financing Authority.
The Financing Authority shall keep such financial and other records and accounts of its operations and the operations of each agency as the Minister of Finance may direct.
The financial records and accounts of the Financing Authority and each agency shall be audited annually by an auditor, who may be the Auditor General, appointed by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, and the cost of each audit of the records and accounts of the Financing Authority shall be paid by the Financing Authority, and the cost of each audit of the records and accounts of an agency shall be charged to the agency.
Annual reports of Financing Authority
The Financing Authority shall, within 120 days after the close of each fiscal year, prepare and submit to the Minister of Finance a report of its operations for that fiscal year, and the report shall include the audited financial statements of the Financing Authority for that fiscal year.
Tabling reports of Financing Authority
The Minister of Finance shall, upon receiving a report of the Financing Authority under subsection (1), lay a copy of the report before the Legislative Assembly if it is then in session and, if it is not then in session, within 15 days after the commencement of the next ensuing session of the Legislative Assembly.
Each minister responsible for the administration of an agency shall, within six months after the close of each fiscal year, prepare a report of the operations of the agency for that fiscal year, and the report shall include the audited financial statements of the agency for that fiscal year.
Each minister responsible for the administration of an agency shall, after preparing a report under subsection (1), lay a copy of the report before the Legislative Assembly if it is then in session and, if it is not then in session, within 15 days after the commencement of the next ensuing session of the Legislative Assembly.
Corporations Act not applicable
The Corporations Act does not apply to the Financing Authority.
The Financing Authority is an agent of Her Majesty in right of Manitoba.
The Crown in right of Manitoba is bound by this Act.
This Act may be referred to as chapter S185 of the Continuing Consolidation of the Statutes of Manitoba.
This Act is retroactive and is deemed to have come into force on April 1, 1992.