This Act sets its short title, changes how interest is calculated for certain Customs Act and Excise Act provisions, creates the Universal Child Care Benefit Act, sets commencement rules, allocates federal payments to provinces and territories, and records a later transfer of powers and office control to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development.
An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on May 2, 2006 Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: Short title This Act may be cited as the Budget Implementation Act, 2006. [Amendments] [Amendment] For the purposes of applying the provisions of the Customs Act that provide for the payment of, or the liability to pay, interest in respect of any amount, the amount shall be determined and interest shall be computed on it as though sections 37 to 41 had come into force on July 1, 2006. For the purposes of applying the provisions of the Customs Act and the Excise Act that provide for the payment of, or the liability to pay, interest in respect of any amount, the amount shall be determined and interest shall be computed on it as though sections 43, 48 and 49 had come into force on July 1, 2006. Enactment of Act The Universal Child Care Benefit Act is enacted as follows: Coming into force This Part, other than sections 173 to 179, comes into force, or is deemed to have come into force, on July 1, 2006. [Note: Sections 173 to 179 in force on assent June 22, 2006.] Payment of $650,000,000 From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, there may, on the requisition of the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, be paid to the provinces a payment in the amount of $650,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2006, in respect of early learning and child care. Provincial allocation The payment referred to in subsection (1) shall be allocated to the provinces as follows: to Ontario, $252,933,933.35; to Quebec, $152,740,663.90; to Nova Scotia, $18,743,350.65; to New Brunswick, $15,028,068.42; to Manitoba, $23,683,368.44; to British Columbia, $85,920,064.72; to Prince Edward Island, $2,762,632.45; to Saskatchewan, $19,863,918.85; to Alberta, $65,973,415.33; to Newfoundland and Labrador, $10,266,477.67; to Yukon, $619,370.20; to the Northwest Territories, $862,067.75; and to Nunavut, $602,668.27. Payment to territories From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, there may, on the requisition of the Minister of Finance, be paid to the territories the following payments for the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2006: to Yukon, $10,900,000; to the Northwest Territories, $18,000,000; and to Nunavut, $17,500,000. [Repealed, 2011, c. 15, s. 21] [Repealed, 2006, c. 4, s. 198] This Part comes into force on January 1, 2008. The Mackenzie Gas Project Impacts Act, whose text is as follows and whose schedule is set out in Schedule 2 to this Act, is hereby enacted: [Repealed, 2013, c. 40, s. 286] Order in Council Sections 208 to 212 come into force on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council. [Note: Sections 208 to 212 in force November 10, 2006, see SI/2006-132.] His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Prime Minister, pursuant to paragraph 2(a)a of the Public Service Rearrangement and Transfer of Duties Actb, hereby transfers to the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development the powers, duties and functions of the Minister of the Environment under the Mackenzie Gas Project Impacts Actc in relation to the Mackenzie gas project, and under section 209 of the Budget Implementation Act, 2006d; and transfers from the Department of the Environment to the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development the control and supervision of the portion of the federal public administration in the Department of the Environment known as the Mackenzie Gas Project Office, effective February 16, 2011. S.C. 2003, c. 22, s. 207 R.S., c. P-34 S.C. 2006, c. 4, s. 208 S.C. 2006, c. 4