D-8.1.1 - Sustainable Development Act

Section 15 Disposition versions

2013-06-14

15. In order to focus its priorities and plan its actions in a way that will foster sustainable development in keeping with the strategy of the Government, every government department and agency in the Administration must identify, in a document to be made public, the specific objectives it intends to pursue in order to contribute to a progressive and compliant implementation of the strategy, as well as the activities or interventions it plans on carrying out to that end, directly or in collaboration with one or more stakeholders in society.

The interventions may include a review of existing Acts, regulations, policies or programs to ensure better compliance with the strategy and the principles on which it is based.

On a voluntary basis, a body or an institution mentioned in section 4 may also, without waiting for an Order in Council under that section, submit to the same obligation to identify, in a document to be made public, the objectives, actions and interventions it intends to pursue or carry out within its jurisdiction and its powers and functions, in order to contribute to sustainable development and to the implementation of the strategy.

2006, c. 3, s. 15; 2013, c. 16, s. 97.

2006-04-19

15. In order to focus its priorities and plan its actions in a way that will foster sustainable development in keeping with the strategy of the Government, every government department, agency and enterprise in the Administration must identify, in a document to be made public, the specific objectives it intends to pursue in order to contribute to a progressive and compliant implementation of the strategy, as well as the activities or interventions it plans on carrying out to that end, directly or in collaboration with one or more stakeholders in society.

The interventions may include a review of existing Acts, regulations, policies or programs to ensure better compliance with the strategy and the principles on which it is based.

On a voluntary basis, a body or an institution mentioned in section 4 may also, without waiting for an Order in Council under that section, submit to the same obligation to identify, in a document to be made public, the objectives, actions and interventions it intends to pursue or carry out within its jurisdiction and its powers and functions, in order to contribute to sustainable development and to the implementation of the strategy.

2006, c. 3, s. 15.