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Bill 231, Protecting Ontarians by Enhancing Gas Station Safety to Prevent Gas and Dash Act, 2020

Anand, Deepak

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EXPLANATORY

NOTE

The

Bill amends the Occupational Health and Safety Act

to require employers at gas stations to require customers to prepay before

being given gasoline. The employer is required to give notice of the

requirement to prepay for gasoline. The Act is also amended to require

employers to provide training to workers involved in the sale of gasoline.

Bill 231 2020

Act to amend the Occupational Health and Safety Act to provide safety measures

in respect of workers at gas stations

Her

Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the

Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:

The Occupational Health and Safety Act is amended

by adding the following section:

Employers’

duties, prepayment for gasoline at gas stations

Application

26.1

(1) This

section applies in respect of a prescribed gas station or a prescribed class of

gas station beginning on the date prescribed for the gas station or for the

class.

Requirement

to prepay

(2) An employer at a gas station shall require a

customer to prepay for gasoline sold at the gas station before the customer is

given gasoline from a pump that has technology that prevents a person from

taking gasoline before paying for it.

Notice

on gasoline pumps

(3) An

employer at a gas station shall affix the prescribed notice to each gasoline

pump to which subsection (2) applies in such manner as may be prescribed.

Training

(4) If

a gas station has one or more gasoline pumps described in subsection (2), the

employer at the gas station shall provide training about worker safety in

accordance with the prescribed requirements to workers involved in the sale of gasoline

at the gas station.

New

and replacement gasoline pumps

(5) A

new or replacement gasoline pump that is installed at a gas station after the

day this

section applies in respect of the gas station must have technology

that prevents a person from taking gasoline before paying for it.

Definitions

(6) In

this section,

“gas

station” means a retail outlet at which gasoline is sold at a gasoline pump and

put into the fuel tanks of motor vehicles; (“station-service”)

“gasoline”

has the same meaning as in the Gasoline Tax Act ,

but does not include aviation fuel, leaded gasoline or propane; (“essence”)

(1) Subsection 70 (2) of the Act is amended by adding the following

paragraphs:

2.1 prescribing

gas stations or classes of gas station and prescribing dates for the purposes

of subsection 26.1 (1);

. . . .

17.1 prescribing, for the purpose of subsection

26.1 (3), the content and appearance of the notice and the manner in which it

shall be affixed to a gasoline pump;

17.2 providing

for such transitional matters as the Lieutenant Governor in Council considers

necessary or advisable in connection with the implementation of

section 26.1,

including requiring an employer at a gas station to post notices relating to

the requirements under

section 26.1 in advance of the

section applying in

respect of the gas station;

. . . .

31.2 prescribing,

for the purpose of subsection 26.1 (4), requirements for the training that

employers shall provide to workers involved in the sale of gasoline from a pump

at a gas station, including when and how often the workers must receive such

training;

(2) Section

70 of the Act is amended by adding the following subsection:

Regulations,

gas stations and dates

(2.1) For

clarity, a regulation made under paragraph 2.1 of subsection (2) may,

(

a) prescribe

classes of gas station based on geographical location; and

(

b) prescribe

different dates for different gas stations or classes of gas station.

Commencement

This Act comes into force on a day to be named by proclamation of the

Lieutenant Governor.

Short

title

The

short title of this Act is the Protecting Ontarians by

Enhancing Gas Station Safety to Prevent Gas and Dash Act, 2020 .

Date Bill stage Event Outcome Committee

November 18, 2020

Second Reading

Ordered referred to Standing Committee

Standing Committee on Justice Policy

November 18, 2020

Second Reading

Vote

Carried

November 18, 2020

Second Reading

Debated

November 16, 2020

First Reading

Vote

Carried

Debates and Progress

First Reading

November 16, 2020

Committee

Second Reading

November 18, 2020

Mr. Deepak Anand, Mr. Wayne Gates, Mr. Jim McDonell, Mr. Jamie West, Ms. Christine Hogarth, Mr. Aris Babikian, Mr. Kaleed Rasheed

Declared carried. Ordered referred to the Standing Committee on Justice Policy.

Committee

Standing Committee on Justice Policy

Third Reading

Royal Assent

Acts affected - Bill 231

Most Ontario public acts are available electronically; to view copies of the Acts to be amended by this bill visit e-laws

Occupational Health and Safety Act

Legislative Assembly of Ontario

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