Marginal note:Order designating Minister

10. The Governor in Council may, by order, designate any member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada to be the Minister for the purposes of any provision of this Act.

Marginal note:Commissions and bodies

• 11. (1) The Governor in Council may

  • (a) establish such committees, commissions, panels or other bodies as the Governor in Council deems necessary to exercise powers and perform duties and functions referred to in the Agreement on behalf of the Government of Canada and shall appoint members and fix the terms of reference of those committees, commissions, panels or bodies;

  • (b) authorize any committee, commission, panel or other body established under paragraph (a) to exercise such powers and perform such duties and functions referred to in the Agreement as are specified by the Governor in Council in the terms of reference of that committee, commission, panel or other body; and

  • (c) appoint members of any other committee, commission, panel or body that may be established under the Agreement.

• Marginal note:Remuneration

  (2) The members of any committee, commission, panel or other body appointed by the Governor in Council under subsection (1) may be paid such remuneration and expenses for their services as are fixed by the Governor in Council.

Marginal note:Canada-United States Trade Commission

• 12. (1) The Governor in Council may appoint a member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada to be the principal representative of, and such other persons as are selected by the Governor in Council to be the other members of, the Canadian section of the Commission established pursuant to Chapter Eighteen of the Agreement.

• Marginal note:Payment of costs of Commission

  (2) The Government of Canada shall pay one half of the aggregate of any expenditures incurred by or on behalf of the Commission.

• Marginal note:Extending purposes of External Affairs Vote 1

  (3) The purposes specified in External Affairs Vote 1 set forth in the Main Estimates for the fiscal year ending the 31st day of March, 1989, as laid before the House of Commons during the second session of the thirty-third Parliament, are extended to include expenditures incurred by or on behalf of the Commission.

[Repealed, 1995, c. 29, s. 18]

23. to 45. [Amendments]

46. to 148. [Amendments]

Marginal note:First certified statements of royalties

149. For greater certainty, the royalties in the first statements certified under paragraph 70.63(1)(d) of the Copyright Act become effective on January 1, 1990 regardless of when the statements are so certified.

Marginal note:Coming into force

• Footnote ^*150. (1) Subject to this Act, this Act or any provision thereof or any provision of any Act as amended by this Act shall come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

  • Return to footnote ^*[Note: Sections 1 to 60, 66 to 107 and 109 to 149 in force January 1, 1989, see SI/89-9; sections 61 to 65 in force February 13, 1989, see SI/89-70.]

• Marginal note:Condition

  (2) No order shall be made under subsection (1) unless the Governor in Council is satisfied that the Government of the United States has taken satisfactory steps to implement the Agreement.