Railway Passenger Services Adjustment Assistance Regulations (C.R.C., c. 342)

Regulations are current to 2013-05-26

Railway Passenger Services Adjustment Assistance Regulations

C.R.C., c. 342

APPROPRIATION ACTS

APPROPRIATION ACT NO. 1, 1977

Regulations Respecting the Implementation of Adjustment Assistance to Railway Companies and Employees Affected by Changes in Railway Passenger Services

SHORT TITLE

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Railway Passenger Services Adjustment Assistance Regulations.

INTERPRETATION

  • 2. (1) In these Regulations,

    “benefits”

    “benefits” means the benefits and expenses referred to in subparagraph (c)(ii) of Department of Transport Vote 52d, Appropriation Act No. 1, 1977; (bénéfices)

    “changes”

    “changes” means changes in the provision, management or operation of selected Railway Passenger Services as a result of

    • (a) the implementation of the provisions of the contract between the Minister of Transport and VIA Rail Canada Inc., entered into pursuant to Department of Transport Vote 52d of Appropriation Act No. 1, 1977, or

    • (b) the discontinuance of a Railway Passenger Service; (changements)

    “cost”

    “cost” means the cost incurred by a railway company with respect to the provision of benefits; (coûts)

    “government arrangement”

    “government arrangement” means an arrangement between the Minister of Transport and a railway company with respect to the reimbursement of the prescribed portion of the cost; (entente gouvernementale)

    “prescribed portion”

    “prescribed portion” means the portion prescribed from time to time by the Governor in Council; (proportion déterminée)

    “Railway Passenger Service”

    “Railway Passenger Service” means a passenger train service that does not accommodate principally persons who commute between points on the railway; (service de transport ferroviaire de passagers)

    “special agreement”

    “special agreement” means an agreement between a railway company or railway companies and a trade union or trade unions with respect to the provision of benefits that result from the special agreement process; (accord spécial)

    “special agreement process”

    “special agreement process” means the negotiating process between a railway company and a trade union commenced with the undertaking between the parties that the arbitration provisions set out in these Regulations will apply to and be binding upon the parties in the event of the dispute between them on any matter arising in respect of the benefits and conditions referred to in subsection 5(2); (processus d’accord spécial)

    “trade union”

    “trade union” means an employee organization certified or recognized as bargaining agent for employees of a railway company. (syndicat)

  • (2) Any word or expression used in these Regulations that is not defined in subsection (1) shall have the same meaning as in the Railway Act.

  • SOR/85-701, s. 1;
  • SOR/88-401, s. 1.