Marginal note:Regulations

8. The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) respecting the factors relating to inadequacy of opportunities for productive employment to be taken into account in determining whether an area, or the region of which an area is a part, requires special measures to facilitate economic expansion and social adjustment;

• (b) defining, for the purposes of this Act, the expressions "work or facility for the economic expansion of a special area" and "commercial undertaking";

• (c) respecting the factors to be taken into account in determining the form and extent of any special assistance that may be provided in respect of any commercial undertaking pursuant to section 7;

• (d) prescribing anything required by this Act to be prescribed by regulation; and

• (e) generally for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.

Marginal note:Annual report

9. The Minister shall cause to be laid before each House of Parliament, not later than the fifth sitting day of that House after January 31 next following the end of each fiscal year, a report on the administration of this Act for that fiscal year.