Recognizing the critical environmental and economic challenge of climate change that is facing the global community, the purpose of this Act is to create a regulatory scheme, a) to reduce greenhouse gas in order to respond to climate change, to protect the environment and to assist Ontarians to transition to a low-carbon economy; and b) to enable Ontario to collaborate and coordinate its actions with similar actions in other jurisdictions in order to ensure the efficacy of its regulatory scheme in the context of a broader international effort to respond to climate change.

This regulation implements the Assessment Act by establishing four Assessment Areas (Eastern Ontario, Central Ontario, Western Ontario and Northern Ontario) and 31 Assessment Regions and defining their composition.

Implements: Assessment Act (R.S.O. 1990, c. A.31). (2017)
Repealed by: Ontario Regulation (O. Reg. 17/10). (2010-02-09)

The present Regulation enacts the Survey Act. For the purpose of the present Regulation “co-ordinate survey” means a survey made for the purpose of establishing the location of points on the surface of the earth by geographic or grid co-ordinates. Section 2 establishes that the system of co-ordinate surveys known as the “Ontario Co-ordinate System” is continued. The text consists of 8 sections and 1 Schedule.

Implements: Surveys Act (R.S.O. 1990, c. S.30). (2011)
Repealed by: Ontario Regulation (O. Reg. 217/10). (2010-06-02)