Remote Sensing Space Systems Act

Marginal note:Minister

• 21 (1) The Minister

  • (a) may not delegate the exercise of the Minister’s powers under subsection 4(3) or 14(1);

  • (b) may delegate only to his or her deputy minister the exercise of the Minister’s powers under subsection 15(1); and

  • (c) may delegate to any officer or class of officers — or, with the consent of the Minister of National Defence, a member or class of members of the Canadian Forces — the exercise of any other powers of the Minister under this Act.

• Marginal note:Minister of National Defence

  (2) The Minister of National Defence

  • (a) may not delegate the exercise of that minister’s powers under subsection 14(2); and

  • (b) may delegate only to his or her deputy minister or the Chief of the Defence Staff the exercise of that minister’s powers under subsection 15(2).

• Marginal note:Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

  (3) The Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness may delegate only to

  • (a) the Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police the exercise of that minister’s powers under paragraph 15(3)(a);

  • (b) the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service the exercise of that minister’s powers under paragraph 15(3)(b); and

  • (c) the Deputy Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness the exercise of that minister’s powers under paragraph 15(3)(c).