Red Tape Reduction Implementation Act

Ensure adult learners applying for financial assistance for programs starting April 1, 2022 or later are assessed under the Student Financial Assistance Act and can benefit from new, simplified eligibility criteria, including streamlined application processes and reduced barriers for Indigenous students and sponsored immigrants.

Ensure Crown mineral agreements are responsibly managed by enabling a faster and more efficient way to replace designated representatives.

Consolidate Alberta Health Care Insurance Plan rules in one piece of legislation to modernize language and ensure greater legislative clarity for industry and the public.

Help Albertans protect their rights by modernizing Alberta Human Rights Commission processes to allow complaints to be addressed more quickly, reduce backlogs and make tribunal hearings more accessible.

Formalize a practice already in place, clarifying that deputy heads can delegate their day-to-day human resource duties to designated supervisory and management positions in a department, improving efficiency.

Enable more efficient regulation of Alberta’s credit union system by transferring oversight of Alberta Central to the Credit Union Deposit Guarantee Corporation.

Enable government to adjust oversight of loan and trust corporations as the risk associated with the use of new financial instruments (such as cryptocurrencies) evolves.

• Delegates authority to Alberta Insurance Council and Accreditation Committee industry oversight bodies to set fees for examinations, licensing, and continuing education courses and providers.
• A check and balance system remains in regulation, and no fees can be established or changed without the Minister’s prior approval.

• Promote economic growth by enabling municipalities to create entertainment districts - designated public areas where adults may responsibly consume alcohol, helping revitalize communities, promote tourism and support local businesses.
• Allow made-at-home beer, wine and cider to be served at private non-sale special events, making sure Albertans can enjoy homemade drinks at weddings or family reunions.
• Support licensed cannabis retailers to grow their businesses by entering the online cannabis market.

• Improve existing protections for investors.
• Enable companies to raise capital more efficiently in Alberta.
• Allow for continued modernization of Alberta’s securities laws, and ensure they line up with other provinces.

• Enable government to set timelines, if necessary, that would improve the Alberta Utilities Commission approval processes, such as approvals of transmission and distribution tariffs and approvals of new power plants.
• Support economic growth by providing more predictability and certainty to utilities operators and job creators looking to invest in natural gas, wind or solar power generation.

• Replace references to repealed wills and succession legislation with references to the Wills and Succession Act, to be applied retroactively to February 1, 2012.
• Ensure Albertans do not have to spend unnecessary time and money on legal costs and bringing claims to court to determine who has the right to the property of a deceased spouse or partner.

• Allow easy online access to the report that reviews the amounts of bereavement damages caused by fatal accidents by posting it on a government website.

• Clarify prompt payment rules for public-private partnerships (P3s).
• Change adjudication decisions from final and binding to interim and binding.
• Allow prompt payment rules to be extended to professional consultants, such as engineers and architects.
• Permit electronic sharing of the Certificate of Substantial Performance in addition to posting notices on the job site.

• Clarify the criteria, terms and election processes for the Real Estate Council of Alberta and Industry Councils.

• Expand Travel Alberta's mandate, giving the agency a more active role, working directly with communities, business and entrepreneurs to develop new tourism destinations, products and experiences.

• Add flexibility in how often an employee’s daily hours of work must be recorded to reduce time for employers and employees.

• Eliminates the ability of municipalities larger than 15,000 citizens to determine their own subdivision and development timelines.
• Enables the Land and Property Rights Tribunal, which will assume the role of the Municipal Government Board to hear permit appeals associated with decisions of provincial regulators.
• Modifies the rules around municipal reserves to bring certainty to the amount of land developers are required to set aside for municipalities.
• Ensures unrelated seniors can live together.

• Establishes the New Land and Property Rights Tribunal Act to legislatively combine 4 boards (Municipal Government Board, New Home Buyer Protection Board, Land Compensation Board, Surface Rights Board) into a single public agency.
• Repeals related provisions in the 4 corresponding acts.

• Removes the requirement for builders to have a Building Assessment Report completed for condominium projects. A Building Assessment Report provides an overview of the common property, inspections, building occupants, and identifies deficiencies or defects in the building.

• Streamlines adoption disclosure provisions related to the Post-Adoptions Registry as part of a larger strategy to reduce red tape in adoptions processes.
• Supports the release of more personal information to adoptees about additional individuals, such as siblings and extended family members.
• Enables adoptees to receive clearer information with fewer redactions.
• Eliminates the need for 2 separate sections in the act for pre- and post-2005 adoption disclosure.

• Creates a pre-registration queue to improve efficiency at the Land Titles Office. A client in the queue could address any deficiencies in their application without moving to the back of the queue.

• Makes legislative changes to enable the review of all professional regulatory organizations to reduce unnecessary government oversight.
• Redefines the minimum criteria for the registration of professional regulatory organizations.
• Introduces “protection of public safety” as another registration criterion in addition to “protection of public interest.”

• Rescinds the Registered Historic Resource designation, which has not been used for over a decade. This designation does not meaningfully protect properties and is associated with funding programs no longer in effect.

• Rescinds eligibility and nomination provisions for centennial medals no longer required without disestablishing the roughly 8,000 medals already awarded.

• Removes the requirement to have a Qualification Certificate holder at Authorized Medicine Sales Outlets, as it is no longer applicable.

• Repeals an outdated requirement that a university must be notified of an unclaimed, deceased body so that it can be used for study or research.
• Amends the Fatality Inquiries Act to reflect this change and ensure legislative alignment.

• Repeals a section of the act implying that the Maintenance Enforcement program is “opt-out” when it is actually “opt-in.”
• Repeals a redundant section of the act relating to the process for child support recipients applying for a garnishment order. This process is already included in the Civil Enforcement Act.

• Allows Albertans to make non-insurance beneficiary designations electronically, similar to beneficiary designations for insurance products.

• Remove legislative requirement for certain oil sands scheme approvals to receive Cabinet approval.

• Remove the requirement that the minister must receive authorization from the Lieutenant Governor in Council prior to entering into a contract or agreement in connection with certain matters outlined in the act.

• Transfer authority for making plan regulations and plebiscites from the Lieutenant Governor in Council to Agriculture and Forestry.
• Establish authority for agriculture marketing boards and commissions to develop bylaws, and for marketing councils to issue directives.

• Eliminate non-profit board of directors residency requirements, aligning with other provinces.
• Align non-profit reporting requirements with for-profit requirements.
• Eliminate requirement for non-profits to publish some information in the Alberta Gazette and/or newspapers.

• Simplify the registration process for limited partnerships by eliminating requirements that are overly-prescriptive, outdated or no longer in keeping with current registry processes.

• Repeal requirement for yearly vital statistics annual reports to be tabled in the legislature. Service Alberta will release this information online.

• Eliminate corporate board of directors residency requirements, aligning with other provinces.

• Repeal Act as it is redundant and outdated.

• Increase the damage claim limit the Surface Rights Board can address to reduce burden on courts, speed up the government approval process for applications for amended Right of Entry Orders, and expedite the processing of compensation applications to the Surface Rights Board.

• Allow Canadian residents, not just Albertans, to be eligible for public land and provincial park grazing dispositions, and obtain grazing permits in forest reserves.

• Repeal the Act and dissolve Energy Efficiency Alberta as an agency to complete governments transition to the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) system.

• Amendments to allow a representative of a mentally incapacitated plan/policy owner to preserve the same beneficiary when their policy/plan changes.

• Reduce provincial government oversight of Regional Service Commissions (RSCs), making it easier for municipalities to establish and oversee RSCs.
• Eliminate the requirement for the Municipal Government Board to create digital recordings or transcripts of non-assessment hearings, aligning with the requirements for assessment hearings and reducing administrative burden.
• Align councillor expense allowances with recently amended federal income tax rules.

• Streamline the existing enforcement process by eliminating redundant or administratively burdensome requirements, and associated expense, for municipalities and the courts.
• Provide clarity around which contraventions warrant administrative penalties.

• Changed the delegation of approving entry into Forest Management Agreements from an Order in Council to a Ministerial Order.

• Repealed as the foundation has not existed since 2002 and its functions are no longer part of the Persons with Development Disabilities program.

• Removed a provision that prescribes the management and display of items in the Glenbow Institute’s collection.

• Repealed as all contracts under this act have concluded and the Small Scale Generation Regulation already supports market-based electricity generation from renewable and alternative energy sources.

• Modernized to remove unnecessary requirements for small scale and low-impact hydroelectric development.

• Dissolve the Health Professions Advisory Board, which has not been active since 2012, as recommended by the Public Agency Secretariat as part of the review of agencies, boards and commissions.

• Repealed outdated references to “chiropractic services” under the “basic health services,” as these have not been covered since 2009.

• Changed legal requirements so it’s easier to provide valid consent through the online registry.

• Updated the board’s appointment to streamline recruitment, repealed an approval requirement to preserve the foundation’s autonomy, modernized for efficiencies and clarified the legislation.

• Streamlined provisions that hampered administrative efficiencies for municipalities.

• Enabled the adoption of upcoming building and fire code updates, which allow for taller wood constructions, by repealing a legislative provision that restricts wood construction to 6 stories in height.