Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act

Marginal note:In relation to broadcasting

• 12 (1) The objects and powers of the Commission in relation to broadcasting are as set out in the Broadcasting Act.

• Marginal note:Digital news

  (1.1) The Commission exercises the powers and performs the duties and functions conferred on it under the Online News Act.

• Marginal note:Telecommunications

  (2) The full-time members of the Commission and the Chairperson shall exercise the powers and perform the duties vested in the Commission and the Chairperson, respectively, by the Telecommunications Act or any special Act, as defined in subsection 2(1) of that Act, or by An Act to promote the efficiency and adaptability of the Canadian economy by regulating certain activities that discourage reliance on electronic means of carrying out commercial activities, and to amend the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission Act, the Competition Act, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and the Telecommunications Act.

• Marginal note:By-laws

  (3) The members of the Commission may make by-laws

  • (a) respecting the establishment of special and standing committees of the members, the delegation of the powers, duties and functions of the members to those committees and the fixing of quorums for meetings of those committees; and

  • (b) providing that any act or thing done by those committees in the exercise of the powers or the performance of the duties and functions delegated to it are deemed to be an act or thing done by the members.