2014 Delegation of Authority Instrument
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This Delegation instrument must be read in conjunction with the Supplementary Notes which define any restrictions and financial limitations. All values include applicable taxes.
Table of Contents
Financial and other Authorities
This delegation instrument becomes effective February 13th, 2014
- SECTION 1 - Operating and Other Financial Authorities
- SECTION 2 – Legislative Programs Financial Authorities
- SECTION 3 - Grants & Contributions Authorities
- SECTION 4 – Other delegated Authorities
- SECTION 5 – Supplementary Notes and Equivalency Table
- Summary of changes compared to previous delegation instrument (PDF, 297 KB)
Financial and other Authorities
SECTION 1 - Operating and Other Financial Authorities (Vote 1 and Special Votes)
Contains the delegation of financial authorities related to the on-going operations of the department, in particular, to exercise the spending authorities (expenditure initiation, and contract signing authorities) and the financial authorities under sections 32, 34 and 33 of the Financial Administration Act (FAA) and other special authorities.
- Delegation Instrument (PDF, 162 KB)
- Restrictions
- Events and Exempted Events (PDF, KB)
- Hospitality (PDF, 451 KB)
- Membership Fees (PDF, 187 KB)
- Relocation (PDF, 303 KB)
- Isolated Post and Government Housing (PDF, 296 KB)
- Project Authority (PDF, 365 KB)
- Claim by and against the Crown (PDF, 294 KB)
- Contracting Authority (PDF, 462 KB)
- Leasing Authority (PDF, 465 KB)
SECTION 2 – Legislative Programs Financial Authorities
Contains financial delegations which are conferred on the department by legislative authorities (Acts or Regulations), such as the Canada Pension Plan Act, the Canada Student Loans Act, etc.
- Delegation Instrument (PDF, 108 KB)
SECTION 3 - Grants & Contributions Authorities (Vote 5)
This section contains authorities related to various types of departmental G&Cs programs. The delegation instrument includes three distinct and separate elements within the project life cycle of each G&C Program and are labeled A (Approval of project proposal), B (Signature of agreement) and C (Certification of the recipient's eligibility pursuant to section 34 of the FAA).
- Delegation Instrument
- FAA Section 33 – Grants and Contributions (PDF, 8 KB)
- ESDC Programs (PDF, 264 KB)
- Labour Program (PDF, 11 KB)
- Joint Delegations – Minister of ESDC and CEIC (EI Part II) (PDF, 112 KB)
SECTION 4 – Other delegated Authorities
This section contains the authorities related to other types of signing authorities for administrative activities pursuant to specific Legislation, including the signing authorities for the submissions to Treasury Board.
- Other delegated Authorities (PDF, 219 KB)
- Notification of Signing Authority for Submissions to Treasury Board (PDF, 46 KB)
SECTION 5 – Supplementary Notes and Equivalency Table
- Supplementary Notes (PDF, 2 MB)
- Table of Equivalency (PDF, 54 KB)