94. The Government, whenever it considers it in the public interest, and to save the public from serious inconvenience or individuals from hardship or injustice, may remit any amount payable or refund any amount paid to the State relating to any matter within the powers of the Parliament as well as any forfeiture or pecuniary penalty imposed or authorized to be imposed for any breach of a fiscal law or the provisions governing the management of any public work producing a toll or revenue, except for breaches of the Act respecting liquor permits (chapter P-9.1), the Act respecting offences relating to alcoholic beverages (chapter I-8.1) and the Licenses Act (chapter L-3), notwithstanding that any part of such forfeiture or penalty is by law given to the informer or prosecutor or to any other person.
Such a remission may be made by general regulation or by special order in each particular case; it may be total or partial, conditional or unconditional; if conditional and the condition is not fulfilled, the order applicable to the case is null and void and all proceedings may be taken or continued as if it had not been made.
A detailed statement of such remissions shall be annually submitted to the National Assembly within the first fifteen days of its next session.
1972, c. 22, s. 94; 1979, c. 71, s. 160; 1992, c. 61, s. 412; 1993, c. 79, s. 47; 1998, c. 16, s. 292.