Employment Insurance Act - Amendments - Bill C-43

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An Act to establish the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency and to amend and repeal other Acts as a consequence.

Published in the Canada Gazette Part III – 11 June, 1999 (Chapter 17)

SHORT TITLE

This Act may be cited as the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency Act.

SUMMARY

This enactment establishes the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency to carry out the mandate of National Revenue and repeals the Department of National Revenue Act. The Minister of National Revenue is named as the Minister responsible for the Agency. The Minister continues to be accountable for the administration and enforcement of federal tax, trade and customs legislation. The Agency supports the Minister in the administration and enforcement of such legislation, and the Minister directs the Commissioner of Customs and Revenue and Agency employees in this regard. The enactment also authorizes the Agency to contract with the provinces to administer provincial tax and other programs.

This enactment sets out the responsibilities, accountability regime, organization, human and financial resources regime, and planning and reporting framework of the Agency. It establishes a Board of Management to oversee the management of the Agency, and gives the Commissioner of Customs and Revenue responsibility for the day-to-day management of the Agency as its chief executive officer. The Minister may issue written directions to the Agency in matters within the authority and responsibility of the Board that affect public policy or could materially affect public finances.

The Agency continues to be subject to Treasury Board's requirements with respect to financial management, but has its own authorities for matters such as human resources, contracting and property management. The Agency must annually submit a corporate business plan to the Minister for recommendation to the Treasury Board, and the Minister must table a summary of the plan in Parliament. The plan must include the strategies the Agency intends to use to meet its human resource and other administrative objectives, as well as the proposed operating and capital budgets.

The sections of Bill C-43 relating to the Employment Insurance Act are as follows:

132. Subsection 97(1) of the Employment Insurance Act is replaced by the following:

Minister's duty

97. (1) The Minister shall administer this Part, section 5 and any regulations made under section 5 or 55 and the Commissioner of Customs and Revenue may exercise all the powers and perform all the duties of the Minister under this Part.

133. Subsection 102(13) of the Act is replaced by the following:

Proof of documents

(13) Every document appearing to be an order, direction, demand, notice, certificate, requirement, decision, assessment, discharge of mortgage or other document executed under, or in the course of the administration or enforcement of, this Part over the name in writing of the Minister, the Deputy Minister of National Revenue, the Commissioner of Customs and Revenue or an officer authorized to exercise the powers or perform the duties of the Minister under this Part, is deemed to be a document signed, made and issued by the Minister, the Deputy Minister, the Commissioner or the officer unless it has been called into question by the Minister or by a person acting for the Minister or for Her Majesty.

134. [Repealed, 1999, c.17, s.136]

135. The Act is amended by replacing the words "Department of National Revenue" with the words "Canada Customs and Revenue Agency" wherever they occur in the following provisions:

1. paragraph 69(3)(f);
2. subsection 88(12);
3. subsection 90(1);
4. subsection 93(2);
5. subsection 102(1);
6. subsections 102(5) to (11);
7. subsection 102(18);
8. section 122; and
9. paragraph 131(1)(a).