Section 49 of the Canadian Energy Regulator Act preserves the Lead Commissioner's independent authority to issue corrective and preventive enforcement measures against energy sector entities, ensuring regulatory discretion is not constrained by procedural requirements elsewhere in the Act.
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49 Nothing in section 47 or subsection 48(1) precludes the Lead Commissioner from taking a measure under subsection 42(1).
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