Default of payment by municipality or municipal enterprise
14(1)Where a municipality or municipal enterprise defaults in any payment required to be made to the Corporation and such default continues for a period of fifteen days, the Corporation shall forthwith inform the Minister of Local Government.
14(2)Upon the request of the Corporation, the Minister of Local Government shall pay to the Corporation such amounts as are in default and shall recover such amounts from the defaulting municipality or from the municipality that has guaranteed the payment due to the Corporation from the defaulting municipal enterprise.
14(3)Where a regional solid waste commission established under section 15.3 of the
Clean Environment Act defaults in any payment required to be made to the Corporation and the Corporation has requested payment under subsection (2), the Minister of Local Government shall pay such amounts as are in default and shall, notwithstanding subsection (2),
(a)
recover from the participating municipalities the portions of the payment for which the municipalities are responsible in accordance with the
Clean Environment Act, and
(b)
raise, in accordance with section 27 of the
Municipalities Act, the money required for the portions of the payment for which the participating unincorporated areas, other than participating Indian reserves, are responsible in accordance with the
Clean Environment Act.
14(4)The Minister of Local Government may recover an amount from a municipality under subsection (2) or paragraph (3)(a) by retaining by way of deduction or set-off that amount out of any grant or other sum of money due or payable by the Minister of Local Government to that municipality.
14(5)Nothing in subsection (4) affects any right of the Province to deduction or set-off under any other Act or regulation or at common law.
1986, c.8, s.87; 1989, c.55, s.40; 1992, c.2, s.44; 1994, c.91, s.9; 1998, c.41, s.88; 1999, c.24, s.4; 2000, c.26, s.226; 2006, c.16, s.123