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Canadian Energy Regulator Act (S.C. 2019, c. 28, s. 10)
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Act current to 2026-05-26 and last amended on 2026-03-26. Previous Versions
Marginal note:Reasons
63 (1) The Commission must issue written reasons for each decision or order it makes. A designated officer must do the same for each decision or order they make.
Marginal note:Public availability
(2) The Regulator must make the decisions and orders, and the reasons for them, publicly available.
Marginal note:Non-application
(3) This section does not apply to a decision or order that is made only in relation to the internal administrative affairs of the Regulator.
Table of Contents
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Canadian Energy Regulator Act
- 1 - Short Title
- 2 - Interpretation
- 6 - Purpose
- 7 - General
- 9 - PART 1 - Canadian Energy Regulator
- 10 - Establishment and Mandate
- 14 - Board of Directors
- 21 - Chief Executive Officer
- 26 - Commission
- 54 - Exercise of Commission’s Powers and Performance of Its Duties and Functions by Designated Officers
- 56 - Rights and Interests of the Indigenous Peoples of Canada
- 60 - Confidentiality of Information
- 63 - Decisions and Orders
- 63 - General
- 69 - Reviews and Appeals
- 73 - Alternative Dispute Resolution
- 74 - Public Engagement
- 76 - Collaborative Processes and Ministerial Arrangements
- 80 - Advice
- 87 - Cost Recovery
- 89 - General
- 93 - PART 2 - Safety, Security and Protection of Persons, Property and Environment
- 93 - Definitions
- 94 - General Duty
- 95 - Regulation of Construction, Operation and Abandonment
- 100 - Security of Regulated Facilities
- 102 - Administration and Enforcement
- 113 - Privilege
- 115 - Administrative Monetary Penalties
- 115 - Regulator’s Powers
- 117 - Violations
- 121 - Rules about Violations
- 125 - Reviews
- 130 - Responsibility
- 132 - Recovery of Penalties
- 134 - General
- 136 - Polluter Pays Principle
- 137 - Liability
- 138 - Financial Requirements
- 140 - Reimbursement by Company
- 141 - Designated Company
- 143 - Pipeline Claims Tribunal
- 143 - Establishment
- 149 - Chairperson and Staff
- 154 - Tribunal’s Powers, Duties and Functions
- 160 - Claims for Compensation
- 164 - Payment by Regulator
- 168 - Reconsideration
- 170 - Judicial Review
- 171 - Appropriation and Repayment
- 172 - Regulations
- 174 - Sentencing Respecting Releases from Pipelines
- 179 - PART 3 - Pipelines
- 179 - General
- 182 - Certificates
- 198 - Location of Pipelines
- 201 - Determination of Detailed Route and Approval
- 208 - Errors
- 210 - Duties of Land Registrar
- 211 - Deviations and Relocations
- 213 - Leave to Open Pipelines
- 214 - Exemptions
- 216 - Regulations Concerning Time Limits
- 217 - Construction Despite Presence of Utilities or Navigable Waters
- 225 - Traffic, Tolls and Tariffs
- 225 - Interpretation
- 226 - Commission’s Powers
- 227 - Filing of Tariff
- 230 - Just and Reasonable Tolls
- 233 - Disallowance or Suspension of Tariff
- 235 - Discrimination
- 238 - Contracts Limiting Liabilities
- 239 - Transmission by Pipeline
- 240 - Transmission and Sale of Gas
- 241 - Abandonment
- 247 - PART 4 - International and Interprovincial Power Lines
- 247 - International Power Lines
- 248 - Permits
- 250 - Location and Construction under Provincial Law
- 256 - Certificates
- 264 - Location and Construction under Federal Law
- 267 - Navigable Waters
- 271 - Facilities, Ground Disturbances and Relocation
- 277 - Abandonment
- 278 - Permits and Certificates
- 290 - General Provisions
- 292 - Offences
- 294 - Application of Certain Provisions
- 296 - PART 5 - Offshore Renewable Energy Projects and Offshore Power Lines
- 297 - Prohibition
- 298 - Authorizations
- 302 - Liability and Financial Requirements
- 305 - General Provisions
- 313 - PART 6 - Lands
- 313 - General Powers
- 316 - Taking and Using Crown Lands
- 317 - Certain Lands for Which Consent Required
- 319 - Application
- 320 - Acquisition or Lease of Lands
- 324 - Right of Entry
- 327 - Determination of Compensation
- 333 - Regulations and Orders Respecting Acquisition, Lease or Taking of Lands and Compensation Matters
- 335 - Damage Prevention
- 336 - Mines and Minerals
- 341 - Executions
- 342 - Construing Special Acts
- 343 - PART 7 - Exports and Imports
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343 - DIVISION 1 - Oil and Gas
- 343 - Prohibition
- 344 - Issuance of Licences for Exportation
- 348 - Variation, Transfer, Suspension and Revocation
- 352 - Importation of Oil or Gas
- 353 - Regulations
- 355 - DIVISION 2 - Electricity
- 355 - Prohibition
- 356 - Issuance of Permits
- 360 - Orders
- 361 - Issuance of Licences
- 362 - Conditions of Permits and Licences
- 367 - Regulations
- 368 - DIVISION 3 - Interprovincial Oil and Gas Trade
- 368 - Interpretation
- 369 - Control by Regulator
- 370 - Issuance of Licences
- 372 - Regulations
- 373 - DIVISION 4 - Implementation of Free Trade Agreements
- 379 - DIVISION 5 - Offences and Punishment
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343 - DIVISION 1 - Oil and Gas
- 381 - PART 8 - Oil and Gas Interests, Production and Conservation
- 389 - PART 9 - General
- 389 - Regulations
- 392 - Review of Act
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