19. If it is impossible for the producer and the municipal body or Aboriginal community, as the case may be, to enter into the contract referred to in the first paragraph of section 18 despite the mediation process undertaken pursuant to the second paragraph of that section, the producer may choose(1) before the expiry date of the contract for the collection and transportation of residual materials to which the municipal body or Aboriginal community is a party, to enter into a contract with any other person containing, as a minimum the elements set out in section 25 in order to ensure the collection and transportation of those residual materials beginning on the date of expiry of the contract for the collection and transportation of residual materials to which, on 7 July 2022, the municipal body or Aboriginal community is a party and that expires not later than 31 December 2024; or
(2) starting on the date referred to in subparagraph 1, to undertake to collect and transport the residual materials itself.
Where, pursuant to the first paragraph, the producer enters into a contract for the collection and transportation of residual materials with a person, or undertakes to collect and transport the residual materials itself, the producer must send a notice to the municipal body or Aboriginal community, as the case may be, indicating the date from which the residual materials will be collected and transported by that person or by the producer.
The notice referred to in the second paragraph must be sent before the expiry date of the contract for the collection and transportation of residual materials to which the municipal body or Aboriginal community is a party and which is referred to in the first paragraph of section 18.
973-2022O.C. 973-2022, s. 19; 1365-2023O.C. 1365-2023, s. 711.