Bill 43 Original (PDF)
EXPLANATORY NOTE
Currently, section 47 of the Capital Investment Plan Act, 1993 allows the Ontario Transportation Capital Corporation to make regulations designating certain highways as toll highways. The Bill amends that provision to restrict the Corporation from designating any King’s Highway that connects Highway 407 East, as defined in the Highway 407 East Act, 2012, to Highway 401.
The Bill also amends the definition of “Highway 407 East” in the Highway 407 East Act, 2012 to exclude any King’s Highway that connects the highway to Highway 401.
Bill 43 2018
An Act to amend the Capital Investment Plan Act, 1993 and the Highway 407 East Act, 2012 with respect to toll highways
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, enacts as follows:
1 (1) Subsection 47 (2) of the Capital Investment Plan Act, 1993 is amended by adding “and to subsection (3.1)” after “Lieutenant Governor in Council” in the portion before clause (a).
(2) Section 47 of the Act is amended by adding the following subsection:
Restriction on designating toll highways
(3.1) A regulation made by the Corporation under subsection (2) may not designate as a toll highway any King’s Highway that connects Highway 407 East, as defined in subsection 1 (1) of the Highway 407 East Act, 2012, to Highway 401.
2 The definition of “Highway 407 East” in subsection 1 (1) of the Highway 407 East Act, 2012 is repealed and the following substituted:
“Highway 407 East” means the highway between the easterly end of Highway 407, as defined in the Highway 407 Act, 1998, and Highway 35/115 and any improvements and fixtures on the highway but does not include any King’s Highways that connect the highway to Highway 401; (“autoroute 407 Est”)
Commencement
3 This Act comes into force on a day to be named by proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor.
Short title
4 The short title of this Act is the Freeing Highways 412 and 418 Act (Toll Highway Amendments), 2018.