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NEWFOUNDLAND AND

LABRADOR

REGULATION 8/25

Department of Environment and Climate Change Notice

under the

Executive Council Act

(O.C.2022-133)

(Filed February 3, 2025)

Under the authority of

section 5 of the Executive Council Act , the Lieutenant-Governor in Council gives the following Notice.

Dated at St. Johns, January 31, 2025.

Krista Quinlan

Clerk of the Executive Council

NOTICE

Analysis

Short title

Definitions

Departmental structure

Powers and duties of the minister

Administration of Acts

Schedule A

Schedule B

Schedule C

Short title

This Notice may be cited as the Department of Environment and Climate Change Notice .

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Definitions

In this Notice

(a)

"department" means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the Department of Environment and Climate Change; and

(b)

"minister" means, unless the context indicates otherwise, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change.

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Departmental structure

(1)The department was restructured by Order in Council 2022-133.

(2) The department is presided over by the minister.

(3) The department consists of 3 branches, as follows:

(

a) Climate Change;

(

b) Environment; and

(

c) Labour.

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Powers and duties of the minister

The powers, functions and duties of the minister include the supervision, control and direction of all matters relating to

(

a) the protection of the environment through programs and standards for waste management, pollution prevention, air emissions and impacted sites;

(

b) protected areas;

(

c) environmental assessment;

(

d) the conservation, development, control, improvement and proper utilization of the water resources of the province;

(

e) policy development, as well as coordination and monitoring of implementation activities for climate change, adaptation and mitigation measures;

(

f) he regulation, mitigation and control of measures related to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; and

(

g) which are not, or in so far as they are not, the responsibility of another minister, agency, body, corporation, board, organization or person.

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Administration of Acts

(1)The minister has sole responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in

Schedule A and of all orders and regulations passed or made under those Acts, including those powers, functions or duties necessary or desirable for carrying out the purposes of those Acts.

(2) The minister and the minister of the departments indicated in Schedules B and C share responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in Schedules B and C and of the orders and regulations passed or made under those Acts, including those powers, functions or duties necessary or desirable for carrying out the purposes of those Acts.

(3) The minister has primary responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in

Schedule B and secondary responsibility for the administration of the Acts set out in

Schedule C.

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Schedule A

Employers' Liability Act

Essential Ambulance Services Act

Fishing Industry Collective Bargaining Act

Interns and Residents Collective Bargaining Act

Labour Relations Act

Labour Standards Act

Management of Greenhouse Gas Act

National Parks Lands Act

Public Service Collective Bargaining Act

Shops' Closing Act

Sustainable Development Act

Teachers' Collective Bargaining Act

Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Act

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Schedule B

Environmental Protection Act (with Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador)

Water Resources Act (with Digital Government and Service Newfoundland and Labrador)

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Schedule C

Muskrat Falls Project Land Use and Expropriation Act (with Industry, Energy and Technology, Fisheries, Forestry and Agriculture and Transportation and Infrastructure)

Pay Equity and Pay Transparency Act (with minister responsible for Women and Gender Equality)

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