CACERCanadian Energy Regulator Act, s. 142Primary legislationIn force

Regulations imposing fees, etc.

Section 142 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act authorizes the regulator to impose fees, levies, and charges on pipeline operators to recover government costs from commodity release incidents. Primary liability falls on the responsible operator; if recovery is insufficient, fees extend to other operators transporting the same or similar commodities. Regulations prescribe fee calculation methods and interest rates on unpaid amounts, which become recoverable debts to the Crown.

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Regulations imposing fees, etc.

142 (1) Subject to the Treasury Board’s approval, the Regulator must, for the purposes of recovering the amounts paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund under subsection 171(1), even if those amounts are more than the amount of the limit of liability referred to in subsection 137(5) that applies to a designated company, make regulations (a) imposing fees, levies or charges on a designated company and, if the amount recovered from the designated company is not sufficient to recover the amounts paid out, imposing fees, levies or charges on companies that are authorized under this Act to construct or operate pipelines that transport the same commodity or a commodity of the same class as the commodity that was released from a pipeline constructed or operated by the designated company; and (b) prescribing the manner of calculating the fees, levies and charges and their payment to the Regulator. (2) A regulation made under subsection (1) may specify the rate of interest or the manner of calculating the rate of interest payable by a company either individually or as a member of a class of companies on any fee, levy or charge not paid by the company on or before the date it is due and the time from which interest is payable. (3) Fees, levies or charges imposed under this section and any interest payable on them constitute a debt that is due to Her Majesty in right of Canada and may be recovered as such in any court of competent jurisdiction.

Source

https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-15.1/section-142.html

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