OIC Number: 2017 - 202

Date of Order: Aug 08, 2017

Statute: Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation (Nova Scotia) Act

OIC Text: The Governor in Council on the report and recommendation of the Minister of Labour and Advanced Education dated July 18, 2017, and pursuant to

Section 202DV of

Chapter 3 of the Acts of 1987, the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation (Nova Scotia) Act , is pleased, effective on and after August 23, 2017, to: (

a) amend the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Marine Installations and Structures Occupational Health and Safety Transitional Regulations , N.S. Reg. 229/2014, made by the Governor in Council by Order in Council 2014-532 dated December 22, 2014, to provide greater flexibility in the regulatory requirements in order to facilitate compliance by offshore workplaces while ensuring an equivalent level of protection of employee health and safety, in the manner set forth in

Schedule A” attached to and forming part of the Report and Recommendation; and (

b) amend the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Marine Installations and Structures Transitional Regulations , N.S. Req. 228/2014, made by the Governor in Council by Order in Council 2014-532 dated December 22, 2014, to provide greater flexibility in the regulatory requirements in order to facilitate compliance by offshore workplaces while ensuring an equivalent level of protection of employee health and safety, in the manner set forth in

Schedule “B” attached to and forming part of the Report and Recommendation.

Department(s): Labour and Advanced Education