Orders issued by the Canadian Energy Regulator Commission under this Part are explicitly excluded from the definition of statutory instruments under the Statutory Instruments Act, clarifying the regulatory status of CER orders.
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388 For greater certainty, an order of the Commission made under this Part is not a statutory instrument as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Statutory Instruments Act.
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