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Public Service Modernization Act (S.C. 2003, c. 22)

Assented to 2003-11-07

Marginal note:Section 2 of this Act

Public Service Labour Relations Act

273. On the later of the day on which this Act receives royal assent and the day on which section 17 of the Yukon Act, being chapter 7 of the Statutes of Canada, 2002, comes into force, subsection 18(2) of the Public Service Labour Relations Act, as enacted by section 2 of this Act, is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (2) Despite paragraph (1)(b), a person is not ineligible to hold office as a member by reason only of holding office as a member of any board that may be constituted by the Commissioner in Council of the Northwest Territories or the Legislature of Yukon or the Legislature for Nunavut with powers and functions similar to those of the Board.

274. On the later of the day on which this Act receives royal assent and the day on which section 14 of the Courts Administration Service Act comes into force, subsection 51(1) of the Public Service Labour Relations Act, as enacted by section 2 of this Act, is replaced by the following:

Marginal note:Orders not to be reviewed by court

  • 51. (1) Subject to this Part, every order or decision of the Board is final and may not be questioned or reviewed in any court, except in accordance with the Federal Courts Act on the grounds referred to in paragraph 18.1(4)(a), (b) or (e) of that Act.

275. On the later of the day on which this Act receives royal assent and the day on which section 16 of the Courts Administration Service Act comes into force, paragraph 59(1)(a) of the Public Service Labour Relations Act, as enacted by section 2 of this Act, is replaced by the following:

  • (a) the position is confidential to the Governor General, a Minister of the Crown, a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Appeal, the Federal Court or the Tax Court of Canada, or a deputy head;

Marginal note:2002, c. 7

Yukon Act

276. If section 17 of this Act comes into force before section 1 of the Yukon Act (the “other Act”), being chapter 7 of the Statutes of Canada, 2002, then, on the day on which section 17 of this Act comes into force, the heading before section 229 and sections 229 and 230 of the other Act are repealed.

Bill C-2

277. If Bill C-2, introduced in the 2nd Session of the 37th Parliament and entitled the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act (the “other Act”), receives royal assent, then, on the later of the coming into force of subsection 14(3) of the other Act and the coming into force of section 8 of this Act, subsection 14(3) of the English version of the other Act is replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Benefits

    (3) The members of the Board and its employees are deemed to be employees for the purposes of the Government Employees Compensation Act and to be employed in the federal public administration for the purposes of any regulations made under section 9 of the Aeronautics Act.