Q-2 - Environment Quality Act

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115.27. The provisions of Chapter III of the Act respecting certain measures enabling the enforcement of environmental and dam safety legislation (chapter M-11.6) apply to the imposition of a monetary administrative penalty on a person who fails to comply with a provision of this Act or the regulations.
2011, c. 20, s. 26; 2022, c. 8, s. 120.
115.27. The Government or the Minister may, in a regulation made under this Act, specify that a failure to comply with the regulation may give rise to a monetary administrative penalty. The regulation may define the conditions for applying the penalty and set forth the amounts or the methods for determining them. The amounts may vary according to the degree to which the standards have been infringed, without exceeding the maximum amounts provided for in section 115.26. The maximum amounts may nonetheless be higher in the case of a monetary administrative penalty provided for in a regulation made under paragraph 2 of section 46.15.
2011, c. 20, s. 26.