Marginal note:Review of Act

• 66. (1) In the seventh year after the coming into force of this section, the Minister of Canadian Heritage, in consultation with the Minister, shall undertake a review of the provisions and operations of this Act and shall immediately submit to each House of Parliament a report thereon including a statement of any changes the Minister of Canadian Heritage would recommend.

• Marginal note:Permanent referral

  (2) The report submitted to the House of Commons pursuant to subsection (1) stands permanently referred to the committee of that House that normally considers cultural matters.

Marginal note:Previous agreements

• 67. (1) On notice in writing to the Tribunal by the parties to any agreement concerning the terms of engagement of artists that is in effect on the coming into force of this section, the terms and conditions of the agreement that are not inconsistent with this Part shall continue to bind the parties to the agreement for any period that the Tribunal may determine on application, or until the agreement expires or a scale agreement is entered into, as if the agreement were a scale agreement under this Part, and each party to the agreement shall be treated as if the party were an artists’ association or a producer.

• Marginal note:Request for certification

  (2) An artists’ association may apply for certification at any time before the termination of an agreement referred to in subsection (1), and may issue a notice at any time after certification, notwithstanding subsection 31(2), requiring the other party to begin bargaining in order to renew or revise the agreement or to enter into a scale agreement.

• Marginal note:Presumption

  (3) The application for certification and subsequent negotiation of a scale agreement by an artists’ association certified in the circumstances described in subsection (2) are deemed not to be unfair practices contrary to sections 50 and 51.

• Marginal note:Effect of scale agreement on previous agreements

  (4) A scale agreement entered into under this Part revokes all agreements entered into before the coming into force of this section in so far as the scale agreement applies to the artists and producers in the sector in respect of which the association is certified.

68. to 70. [Amendments]

Marginal note:Coming into force

Footnote ^*71. This Act or any provision thereof shall come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Section 1 and Part I in force May 14, 1993, see SI/93-75; sections 10 to 13, 15 and 16 in force June 11, 1993, see SI/93-92; sections 5 to 9, 14 and 17 to 70 in force May 9, 1995, see SI/95-61.]