AI-assisted research summary: This regulation keeps certain pre-amalgamation borrowing by-laws in force in the former municipality area, lets a newly amalgamated municipality finish certain development-plan processes, and sets the regulation’s coming-into-force date.
Implementation and Transition Regulation, M.R. 263/2014 The Municipal Amalgamations Act , C.C.S.M. c. M235 Regulation 263/2014 Registered November 27, 2014 bilingual version (HTML) Definitions 1 The following definitions apply in this regulation. "borrowing by-law" means a borrowing by-law as defined in section 172 of The Municipal Act . (« règlement d'emprunt ») "former municipality" means a municipality amalgamated under The Municipal Amalgamations Act . (« ancienne municipalité ») "former planning authority" means a former municipality or a planning district which included a former municipality. (« ancienne autorité chargée de l'aménagement du territoire ») "new planning authority" means a newly amalgamated municipality or a planning district that includes a newly amalgamated municipality. (« nouvelle autorité chargée de l'aménagement du territoire ») Continuation of borrowing by-laws 2(1) A borrowing by-law passed by a council of a former municipality continues to apply only in the area of the former municipality, despite the former municipality being amalgamated and its area forming part of a newly amalgamated municipality. Application 2(2) Nothing is this section prevents a newly amalgamated municipality from amending a borrowing by-law, as provided for in Division 2 of Part 6 of The Municipal Act . Continuation of development planning process 3(1) If a former planning authority has commenced but not completed the process for adopting or amending a development plan before January 1, 2015, the new planning authority may continue and complete the process as if it were the former planning authority. Interpretation 3(2) For certainty, the adopting or amending process for a development plan is the process set out in sections 45 to 62.2 of The Planning Act . Coming into force 4 This regulation comes into force on January 1, 2015, and if it is registered under The Statutes and Regulations Act after that day, it is deemed to have come into force on January 1, 2015.