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PART IV — Administrative Monetary Penalties

Commission of Violations

273Violations history

Every person or department that contravenes or fails to comply with a provision, direction, order or condition designated by regulations made under paragraph 270(1)(a) commits a violation and is liable to a penalty of an amount to be determined in accordance with the regulations.

2017, c. 20, s. 377

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274Liability of parties to violation history

If a corporation or a department commits a violation, any of the following persons who directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated in the commission of the violation is a party to the violation and is liable to a penalty of an amount to be determined in accordance with the regulations, whether or not the corporation or department has been proceeded against in accordance with this Part:

(a)

any officer, director, agent or mandatary of the corporation;

(b)

any senior official in the department; or

(c)

any other person exercising managerial or supervisory functions in the corporation or department.

2017, c. 20, s. 377

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275Proof of violation — employees history

In any proceedings under this Part against a person or a department in relation to a violation, it is sufficient proof of the violation to establish that it was committed by an employee or agent or mandatary of the person or of the department, whether or not the employee or agent or mandatary has been identified or proceeded against in accordance with this Part.

2017, c. 20, s. 377

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276Notice of violation history
(1)

If a person designated under paragraph 271(b) has reasonable grounds to believe that a person or a department has committed a violation, the designated person may issue a notice of violation and shall cause it to be served on the person or on the department in accordance with the regulations.

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(2)

The notice of violation shall

(a)

name the person or department that is believed to have committed the violation;

(b)

set out the relevant facts surrounding the violation;

(c)

set out the penalty for the violation;

(d)

inform the person or department of their right to contest the facts of the alleged violation or the penalty, by way of review and appeal, and of the procedure to be followed to exercise that right;

(e)

inform the person or department of the manner of paying the penalty set out in the notice; and

(f)

inform the person or department that, if they do not pay the penalty or exercise their right referred to in paragraph (d), they will be considered to have committed the violation and that they are liable for the penalty set out in the notice.

Copy given by employer

(3)

If the notice of violation is issued to an employer who has committed a violation by contravening a provision of Part II or a direction issued under that Part, the employer shall, without delay, give a copy of the notice to the work place committee or health and safety representative, as those terms are defined in subsection 122(1).

2017, c. 20, s. 377

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