In force: 2022-07-07
20. Where, on 7 July 2022, a municipal body or an Aboriginal community is a party to a contract for the collection and transportation of residual materials that ends on a date after 31 December 2024, a producer must, not later than 18 months before 31 December 2024 choose to(1) take steps to enter into, with the municipal body or Aboriginal community, as the case may be, a contract specifying compensation for the body or Aboriginal community for the services referred to in 53.31.1 of the Environment Quality Act (chapter Q-2), as it read prior to 31 December 2024 provided between 1 January 2025 and the end date of the contract for the collection and transportation of residual materials to which the municipal body or Aboriginal community is a party; or (2) take steps to enter into, with the municipal body or Aboriginal community, as the case may be, a contract in which(a) the municipal body or Aboriginal community agrees to cancel the contract for the collection and transportation of residual materials to which it is a party; and
(b) the producer undertakes to compensate the municipal body or Aboriginal community for the costs, penalties or other claims resulting from the cancellation referred to in subparagraph a of this paragraph.
Not later than 18 months prior to the end of a contract referred to in subparagraph 1 of the first paragraph, the producer must take steps to enter into, with the municipal body or Aboriginal community concerned, as the case may be, or with any other municipal body or Aboriginal community, a contract for, as a minimum, the collection and transportation of residual materials from residential buildings with less than 9 dwellings and in the territory covered by the contract with the minimum content set out in section 25.
Where the producer chooses to enter into a contract referred to in subparagraph 2 of the first paragraph, the producer must, not later than 18 months before the cancellation referred to in subparagraph a of that subparagraph takes effect, enter into, with the municipal body or Aboriginal community concerned, as the case may be, or with any other municipal body, a contract for, as a minimum, the collection and transportation of residual materials from residential buildings with less than 9 dwellings covered by the cancelled contract and in the territory covered by the contract with the minimum content set out in section 25.
973-2022O.C. 973-2022, s. 20.