27.19. Persons designated by the president and chief executive officer of the Authority may impose the monetary administrative penalties prescribed in section 27.15 or a regulation made under that section.
For the purposes of the first paragraph, the Authority develops and makes public a general framework for applying such administrative penalties, which specifies, in particular, the following elements:1° the purpose of the penalties, such as urging an enterprise to take rapid measures to remedy a failure or deter its repetition;
2° the categories of functions held by the persons designated to impose penalties;
3° the criteria that must guide designated persons when a failure to comply has occurred, such as the type of failure, its repetitive nature and the measures taken by the enterprise to remedy it;
4° the circumstances in which priority will be given to any penal proceedings; and
5° the other procedures connected with such a penalty, such as the fact that it must be preceded by notification of a notice of non-compliance.
In addition, the general framework must set out the categories of administrative or penal sanctions as defined by the Act or the regulations.
2022, c. 182022, c. 18, s. 541.