RECOVERY OF FEES

Recovery of fees

13. Any fee required by the regulations to be paid constitutes a debt due to Her Majesty in right of Canada and may be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction.

OFFENCES AND PUNISHMENT

Contravention of Act or regulations

14. (1) Every individual who contravenes any provision of this Act, other than subsection 10.3(1), or the regulations is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.

False or misleading statements

(2) Every individual who knowingly makes any false or misleading statement in any return or other document submitted to the registrar under this Act, whether in electronic or other form, is guilty of an offence and liable

    (a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both; and

    (b) on proceedings by way of indictment, to a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or to both.

Limitation of proceedings

(3) Proceedings by way of summary conviction in respect of an offence under this section may be instituted at any time within but not later than two years after the time when the subject-matter of the proceedings arose.

RELATED AMENDMENTS

R.S., c. A-1

Access to Information Act

8. Schedule I to the Access to Information Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading ``Other Government Institutions'' :

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1993, c. 12

Budget Implementation (fiscal measures) Act, 1992

9. The heading before section 11 and sections 11 to 13 of the Budget Implementation (fiscal measures) Act, 1992 are repealed.

10. Subsection 17(2) of the Act is repealed.

R.S., c. P-21

Privacy Act

11. The schedule to the Privacy Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading ``Other Government Institutions'' :

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REVIEW BY PARLIAMENT

Review

12. (1) The Lobbyists Registration Act shall, on the expiration of four years after the coming into force of this section, stand referred to such committee of the Senate, of the House of Commons or of both Houses of Parliament as may be designated or established to review the administration and operation of that Act.

Report

(2) The committee shall, within one year after beginning the review or within such further time as the Senate, the House of Commons or both Houses of Parliament, as the case may be, may authorize, submit a report on the review to that House or both Houses, including a statement of any changes to the Lobbyists Registration Act that the committee would recommend.

TRANSITIONAL

Definitions

13. (1) In this section,

``new law''
« nouvelle loi »

``new law'' means section 5 of the Lobbyists Registration Act as enacted by section 3 of this Act;

``old law''
« ancienne loi »

``old law'' means section 5 of the Lobbyists Registration Act as it read immediately before the date on which the new law comes into force.

Transitional

(2) Every individual who was required by the old law to submit a return to the registrar in respect of an undertaking shall, if the undertaking has not been completed or terminated before the date on which the new law comes into force, file with the registrar, not later than two months after the new law comes into force and in accordance with the new law, a return in respect of the undertaking.

COMING INTO FORCE

Coming into force

14. This Act or any of its provisions comes into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.