name: Budget Implementation Act, 2004
unofficial_text: # Budget Implementation Act, 2004
  
  SC 2004, c 22
  
  An Act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in Parliament on March 23, 2004
  
  Assented to 2004-5-14
  
  Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 
  
  ## Short Title 
  
  ### Short title
  
  1 This Act may be cited as the Budget Implementation Act, 2004.  
  
  # PART 1 
  
  ## Amendments to the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act 
  
  ## Fiscal Equalization Payments 
  2 [Amendment] 
  3 [Amendment] 
  4 [Amendment] 
  
  ## Canada Social Transfer 
  5 [Amendment] 
  
  # PART 2 
  
  ## Amendment to the Canada-Newfoundland Atlantic Accord Implementation Act 
  6 [Amendment] 
  
  # PART 3 
  
  ## General — Payments to Certain Entities 
  
  ## Payments to a Trust 
  
  ### Payments to trust — immunization and public health
  
  7 (1) The Minister of Finance may make direct payments, in an aggregate amount of not more than four hundred million dollars, to a trust established to provide the provinces with funding for the purposes of supporting a national immunization strategy and assisting in the enhancement of their public health capacities. 
  
  ### Provincial share
  
  (2) The amount that may be provided to a province under this section is to be determined in accordance with the terms of the trust indenture establishing the trust referred to in subsection (1). 
  
  ### Payments out of C.R.F.
  
  (3) Any amount payable under this section may be paid by the Minister of Finance out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund at the times and in the manner that the Minister of Finance considers appropriate. 
  
  ## Payments to Nova Scotia 
  
  ### Payment for 2004-2005
  
  8 (1) For the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2004, the Minister of Finance may make a cash payment to the Province of Nova Scotia in the amount of thirty-four million dollars. 
  
  ### Payment for 2005-2006
  
  (2) For the fiscal year beginning on April 1, 2005, the Minister of Finance may make a cash payment to the Province of Nova Scotia in the amount of four million dollars. 
  (3)  [Repealed, 2005, c. 30, s. 86]  
  
  ### Payment out of C.R.F.
  
  (4) Any amount payable under subsection (1) or (2) may be paid by the Minister of Finance out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund at the time and in the manner that the Minister of Finance considers appropriate. 
  
  ### Definition of 
  *former legislation* 
  
  (5) In subsections (1) to (3), 
  *former legislation* means the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act as it read on May 13, 2004.  
  
  ## Payment to Saskatchewan 
  
  ### Payment of $120,000,000
  
  9 (1) The Minister of Finance may make a cash payment of one hundred and twenty million dollars to the Province of Saskatchewan. 
  
  ### Payment out of C.R.F.
  
  (2) Any amount payable under subsection (1) may be paid by the Minister of Finance out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund at the time and in the manner that the Minister of Finance considers appropriate. 
  
  ## Appropriations for Grants 
  
  ## Canada Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology 
  
  ### $200,000,000 granted
  
  10 From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund there may, on the requisition of the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of Natural Resources, be paid and applied a sum not exceeding two hundred million dollars for payment to the Canada Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology for its use. 
  
  ## Canada Health Infoway Inc. 
  
  ### $100,000,000 granted
  
  11 From and out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund there may, on the requisition of the Minister of Health, be paid and applied a sum not exceeding one hundred million dollars for payment to the Canada Health Infoway Inc. for its use. 
  
  ## Amendments to the Canada Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology Act  
  12 [Amendment] 
  13 [Amendment] 
  14 [Amendment] 
  
  # PART 4 
  
  ## Amendments to the Canada Pension Plan 
  
  ##  Canada Pension Plan  
  15 [Amendment] 
  16 [Amendment] 
  17 [Amendment] 
  18 [Amendment] 
  19 [Amendment] 
  20 [Amendment] 
  21 [Amendment] 
  22 [Amendment] 
  
  ## Transitional 
  23 [Transitional provision] 
  
  ## Coming into Force 
  
  ### Subsection 114(2) of the Canada Pension Plan does not apply 
  
  24 (1) Subsection 114(2) of the Canada Pension Plan does not apply in respect of the amendments to that Act contained in this Part.  
  
  ### Order
  
   * (2)  This Part comes into force, in accordance with subsection 114(4) of the Canada Pension Plan, on a day to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.  
  * [Note: Part 4 in force January 31, 2005, see SI/2005-6.]  
  
  # PART 5 
  
  ## Amendments to the Employment Insurance Act 
  25 [Amendment] 
  26 [Amendment] 
  27 [Amendment] 
  
  # PART 6 
  
  ## Amendment to the Farm Credit Canada Act 
  28 [Amendment] 
  
  # PART 7 
  
  ## Goods and Services Tax and Harmonized Sales Tax Rebate for Municipalities 
  
  ##  Excise Tax Act  
  29 [Amendment] 
  30 [Amendment] 
  31 [Amendment] 
  32 [Amendment] 
  33 [Amendment] 
  34 [Amendment] 
  35 [Amendment] 
  36 [Amendment] 
  37 [Amendment] 
  38 [Amendment] 
  39 [Amendment] 
  40 [Amendment] 
  41 [Amendment] 
  42 [Amendment] 
  43 [Amendment] 
  44 [Amendment] 
  
  # PART 8 
  
  ## Limitation Periods for Collection of Charge Debts and Tax Debts 
  
  ##  Air Travellers Security Charge Act  
  45 [Amendment] 
  
  ##  Excise Act  
  46 [Amendment] 
  
  ##  Excise Act, 2001  
  47 [Amendment] 
  
  ##  Excise Tax Act  
  48 [Amendment] 
  49 [Amendment] 
  
  ##  Income Tax Act  
  50 [Amendment]