Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act

Marginal note:Regulations

40 The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) respecting the determination of amounts that are to be computed under Part I or I.1;

• (a.1) respecting the information that must be prepared and submitted by the Chief Statistician of Canada for the purposes of Parts I and I.1;

• (a.2) providing for the provincial or territo- rial revenues that constitute, or are deemed to constitute, the revenues referred to in each paragraph of the definition revenue source in subsections 3.5(1) and 4(1);

• (a.3) providing for the provincial revenues that constitute, or are deemed to constitute, the revenues referred to in each paragraph of the definition revenue source in subsection 4(2) of this Act as it read on March 13, 2004;

• (a.4) defining, for the purposes of sections 3.6 to 3.9, the expressions national average rate of tax, revenue base and revenue to be equalized;

• (b) providing for the payment to a province of advances on account of any amount that may become payable to the province under this Act, an administration agreement, a reciprocal taxation agreement or a sales tax harmonization agreement, the adjustment, by way of reduction or set off, of other payments to the province because of those advances and the recovery of overpayments;

• (c) prescribing the manner of determining the population of a province for a fiscal year;

• (d) prescribing the time and manner of making any payment under this Act, an administration agreement or a sales tax harmonization agreement;

• (e) prescribing the accounts to be kept for the purposes of this Act or an agreement entered into under the authority of this Act and the management of those accounts;

• (f) respecting the determination of any matter that under this Act is to be determined by the Minister, the Minister of National Revenue, the Minister of Social Development or the Minister of Health;

• (g) prescribing anything that, by virtue of any other provision of this Act, is to be prescribed; and

• (h) generally for carrying into effect the purposes and provisions of this Act.