Marginal note:Regulations

37. The Governor in Council may, by regulation, prescribe

• (a) individuals or classes of individuals for the purpose of the definition “public officer” in section 24; and

• (b) federal institutions to which the information referred to in subsection 29(2) may be made available, and the federal or provincial laws or activities for whose administration or enforcement the information may be made available.

Marginal note:Minister and Deputy Minister

• 38. (1) Any person who holds, immediately before the day on which this section comes into force, the office styled Minister of Social Development or Deputy Minister of Social Development is deemed to have been appointed under this Act as Minister of Social Development or Deputy Minister of Social Development, respectively, on that day.

• Marginal note:Employees

  (2) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as affecting the status of an employee who occupied, immediately before the day on which this section comes into force, a position in the Department of Human Resources Development, except that the employee on that day shall occupy that position in the Department of Social Development.

Marginal note:National Council of Welfare

39. A person who holds office as a member of the National Council of Welfare immediately before the day on which this section comes into force shall continue in office for the remainder of the term for which they were appointed.

Marginal note:Transfer of powers, duties and functions

40. Any power, duty or function that, immediately before the day on which this section comes into force, was vested in or exercisable by the Minister of Human Resources Development, the Deputy Minister or an employee of the Department of Human Resources Development, the Minister to be styled Minister of Social Development or the Deputy Minister to be styled Deputy Minister of Social Development, under any Act, order, rule or regulation, or any contract, lease, licence or other document, is, on that day, vested in and exercisable by the Minister of Social Development, Deputy Minister or employee of the Department of Social Development, as the case may be, unless the Governor in Council by order designates another Minister, Deputy Minister or officer of the public service of Canada to exercise that power or perform that duty or function.

Marginal note:Transfer of appropriations

41. Any amount appropriated, for the fiscal year in which this section comes into force, by an appropriation Act based on the Estimates for that year for defraying the charges and expenses of the public service of Canada within the Department of Human Resources Development (Social Development) and that, on the day on which this section comes into force, is unexpended, is deemed to be an amount appropriated for defraying the charges and expenses of the Department of Social Development.

42. Schedule I to the Access to Information Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading “Departments and Ministries of State”: