Department of Health Act (S.C. 1996, c. 8)

Marginal note:Transfer of appropriations

14 Any amount appropriated, for the fiscal year in which this section comes into force, by an appropriation Act based on the Estimates for that year for defraying the charges and expenses of the public service of Canada within the Department of National Health and Welfare and that, on the day on which this section comes into force, is unexpended is deemed, on that day, to be an amount appropriated for defraying the charges and expenses of the Department of Health.

Marginal note:Transfer of powers, duties and functions

• 15 (1) Wherever, under any Act of Parliament, any instrument made under an Act of Parliament or any order, contract, lease, licence or other document, any power, duty or function is vested in or may be exercised or performed by any of the persons referred to in subsection (2) in relation to any matter to which the powers, duties and functions of the Minister of Health extend by virtue of this Act, that power, duty or function is vested in or may be exercised or performed by the Minister of Health, the Deputy Minister of Health or the appropriate officer of the Department of Health, as the case may be, unless the Governor in Council by order designates another Minister, Deputy Minister or officer of the public service of Canada to exercise that power or perform that duty or function.

• Marginal note:Persons

  (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the persons are

  • (a) the Minister of National Health and Welfare and the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs;

  • (b) the Deputy Minister of National Health and Welfare and the Deputy Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs; and

  • (c) any officer of the Department of National Health and Welfare and the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs.

Related Amendments

16 to 31 [Amendments]

References

• 32 (1) [Amendments]

• (2) Every reference to the Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs in any order, regulation or other instrument made under the Hazardous Materials Information Review Act or the Hazardous Products Act shall be read as a reference to the Minister of Health unless the context otherwise requires or unless the relevant power, duty or function has been assigned to another minister.

• (3) A reference to the Minister of National Health and Welfare in any other Act of Parliament or in any order, regulation or other instrument made under any Act of Parliament shall be read as a reference to the Minister of Health, unless the context otherwise requires or unless the relevant power, duty or function has been assigned to another minister.

33 [Amendments]

• 34 (1) [Amendments]

• (2) A reference to the Department of National Health and Welfare in any other Act of Parliament or in any order, regulation or other instrument made under any Act of Parliament shall be read as a reference to the Department of Health, unless the context otherwise requires or unless the relevant power, duty or function has been assigned to a minister other than the Minister of Health.

Conditional Amendments

35 and 36 [Amendments]

Repeal

37 [Repeal]

Coming into Force

Marginal note:Coming into force

Footnote ^*38 This Act or any provision of this Act comes into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Act in force July 12, 1996, see SI/96-69.]