AI-assisted research summary: The minister must prepare, lay before the Legislative Assembly, and publish an annual report about regulatory modernization activities.
1 REGULATORY MODERNIZATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY c R-16.3 The Regulatory Modernization and Accountability Act being Chapter R‑16.3 of the Statutes of Saskatchewan, 2013 (effective October 21, 2013), as amended by the Statutes of Saskatchewan, 2014, c E‑13.1; and 2019, c 8. NOTE: This consolidation is not official and is subject to House amendments and Law Clerk and Parliamentary Counsel changes to Separate Chapters that may be incorporated up until the publication of the annual bound volume. Amendments have been incorporated for convenience of reference and the official Statutes and Regulations should be consulted for all purposes of interpretation and application of the law. In order to preserve the integrity of the official Statutes and Regulations, errors that may have appeared are reproduced in this consolidation. 2 c R-16.3 REGULATORY MODERNIZATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY Table of Contents 1 Short title 2 Interpretation 3 Reporting re regulatory modernization 4 Regulations 5 Coming into force 3 REGULATORY MODERNIZATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY c R-16.3 CHAPTER R-16.3 An Act respecting Regulatory Modernization and Accountability Short title 1 This Act may be cited as The Regulatory Modernization and Accountability Act. Interpretation 2 In this Act: (a) “minister” means the member of the Executive Council to whom for the time being the administration of this Act is assigned; (b) “prescribed” means prescribed in the regulations made pursuant to this Act; (c) “regulation” means: (i) a regulation as defined in Part 4 of The Legislation Act; or (ii) any prescribed information or procedure that is administered or required by the Government of Saskatchewan; (d) “report” means the report prepared pursuant to subsection 3(1); (e) “reporting period” means the period commencing on April 1 in one year and ending on March 31 in the following year. 2013, c R‑16.3, s 2; 2019, c 8, s 17. Reporting re regulatory modernization 3(1) In accordance with section 13 of The Executive Government Administration Act, the minister shall prepare a report that contains the prescribed information respecting the activities undertaken by the Government of Saskatchewan to modernize regulations during the reporting period. (2) In accordance with section 13 of The Executive Government Administration Act, the minister shall lay before the Legislative Assembly each report prepared pursuant to subsection (1). (3) In addition to laying the report before the Legislative Assembly, the minister shall cause the report to be published in a manner that, in the minister’s opinion, can reasonably be expected to bring the report to the attention of the public. 2013, c R‑16.3, s 3; 2014, c E‑13.1, s 62. 4 c R-16.3 REGULATORY MODERNIZATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY Regulations 4 The Lieutenant Governor in Council may make regulations: (a) defining, enlarging or restricting the meaning of any word or expression used in this Act but not defined in this Act; (b) for the purposes of clause 2(c), prescribing information or procedures, or classes of information or procedures, as a regulation; (c) for the purposes of section 3, prescribing information that must be included in a report; (d) prescribing any other matter or thing required or authorized by this Act to be prescribed in the regulations; (e) respecting any other matter or thing the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers necessary to carry out the intent of this Act. 2013, c R‑16.3, s 4. Coming into force 5 This Act comes into force on proclamation. 2013, c R‑16.3, s 5. REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN Printed by the authority of THE QUEEN’S PRINTER Copyright©2019