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• Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act
  • 1 - Short Title
  • 2 - Her Majesty
  • 3 - PART 1 - Fuel Charge
    • 3 - DIVISION 1 - Interpretation and General Rules of Application
      • 3 - Interpretation
      • 8 - General Rules of Application
    • 17 - DIVISION 2 - Application of Charge
      • 17 - SUBDIVISION A - General Application of Charge to Fuel and Combustible Waste
      • 28 - SUBDIVISION B - Application of Charge to Air, Marine, Rail and Road Carriers
      • 36 - SUBDIVISION C - Exemption Certificate
      • 38 - SUBDIVISION D - Application of Charge in Special Circumstances
      • 40 - SUBDIVISION E - Amount of Charge
    • 42 - DIVISION 3 - Rebates
    • 55 - DIVISION 4 - Registration, Reporting Periods, Returns and Payments
      • 55 - SUBDIVISION A - Registration
      • 68 - SUBDIVISION B - Reporting Periods, Returns and Requirement to Pay
    • 74 - DIVISION 5 - Miscellaneous
      • 74 - SUBDIVISION A - Trustees, Receivers and Personal Representatives
      • 78 - SUBDIVISION B - Amalgamation and Winding-up
      • 80 - SUBDIVISION C - Partnerships and Joint Ventures
      • 82 - SUBDIVISION D - Anti-avoidance
    • 84 - DIVISION 6 - Administration and Enforcement
      • 84 - SUBDIVISION A - Payments
      • 93 - SUBDIVISION B - Administration and Officers
      • 97 - SUBDIVISION C - Interest
      • 102 - SUBDIVISION D - Financial Administration Act and Service Fees Act
      • 104 - SUBDIVISION E - Records and Information
      • 108 - SUBDIVISION F - Assessments
      • 113 - SUBDIVISION G - Objections to Assessment
      • 115 - SUBDIVISION H - Appeal
      • 123 - SUBDIVISION I - Penalties
      • 132 - SUBDIVISION J - Offences and Punishment
      • 141 - SUBDIVISION K - Inspections
      • 148 - SUBDIVISION L - Collection
      • 162 - SUBDIVISION M - Evidence and Procedure
    • 165 - DIVISION 7 - Distribution of Fuel Charge
    • 166 - DIVISION 8 - Regulations
  • 169 - PART 2 - Industrial Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    • 169 - Interpretation
    • 171 - DIVISION 1 - Pricing Mechanism for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
      • 171 - Registration of Covered Facilities
      • 173 - Reporting, Compensation and Compliance Units
      • 182 - Recovery of Compensation
      • 185 - Tracking System
      • 187 - Records
      • 188 - Revenues
      • 189 - Orders and Regulations
      • 196 - Delegation
    • 197 - DIVISION 2 - Information and Samples
    • 200 - DIVISION 3 - Administration and Enforcement
      • 200 - Interpretation
      • 201 - Designation of Enforcement Officers and Analysts
      • 203 - Powers
      • 206 - Assistance to Enforcement Officers and Analysts
      • 210 - Disposition of Things Seized
      • 213 - Jurisdiction of Justices and Judges — Exclusive Economic Zone of Canada and Waters Above the Continental Shelf of Canada
      • 214 - Compliance Orders
      • 225 - Voluntary Reports
      • 226 - Application for Investigation of Offences
      • 231 - Injunctions
    • 232 - DIVISION 4 - Offences and Punishment
      • 232 - Offences
      • 247 - Sentencing
      • 252 - Registry
    • 253 - DIVISION 5 - Miscellaneous
      • 253 - Agreements Respecting Administration and Enforcement
      • 254 - Confidentiality
      • 257 - Regulations
      • 260 - Service Fees Act
      • 261 - Review
  • 262 - PART 3 - Application of Provincial Schemes
  • 270 - PART 4 - Report to Parliament
  • SCHEDULE 1 - Provinces and Areas
  • SCHEDULE 2 - Charge Rates
  • SCHEDULE 3
  • SCHEDULE 4

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Amendments *

Amendment Citation	Amendment date
2024, c. 20	2025-06-02
SOR/2025-107	2025-03-15
2024, c. 17	2024-06-20
SOR/2023-129	2023-07-01
SOR/2023-130	2023-07-01
SOR/2023-148	2023-06-23
2023, c. 26	2023-06-22
SOR/2023-62	2023-04-01
SOR/2022-210	2023-01-01
2022, c. 19	2022-12-15

* List of amendments since 2019-01-01 (limited to last 10 amendments) [more details]

Regulations made under this Act

• Canadian Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit System Regulations (SOR/2022-111)
• Fuel Charge Regulations (2018, c. 12, s. 187)
• Output-Based Pricing System Regulations (SOR/2019-266)

Repealed regulations made under this Act

• Criteria Respecting Facilities and Persons and Publishing Measures, Notice Establishing [Repealed] (SOR/2018-213)
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information Production Order [Repealed] (SOR/2018-214)
• Part 1 of the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act Regulations (Alberta) [Repealed] (SOR/2019-294)

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