Fighting Delays, Building Faster Act, 2025

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SCHEDULE 1 BUILDING TRANSIT FASTER ACT, 2020 This Schedule amends the Building Transit Faster Act, 2020 . Some highlights include: 1. The definition of “immediate danger to construction” in section 2 of the Act is repealed and the concept is incorporated into section 26 of the Act. 2. References to construction in Part II (Corridor Control) and Part V (Municipal Service and Right of Way Access) are expanded to include operation and maintenance in sections 12, 26, 27, 34 and 52. 3. Sections 14, 17, 19 and 36 are amended to reduce the notice period from 30 days to 15 days. 4. Section 52 is repealed and replaced to broaden the basis on which Metrolinx may determine that municipal service and right of way access is required to include the alteration and relocation of, and access and connection to, municipal services, rights of way and infrastructure. It is also broadened to include municipal infrastructure that is related to bridges, tunnels and life safety systems and to give the Minister authority to prescribe, by regulation, additional municipal infrastructure to which an order may apply. 5. Subsection 59 (1) is amended to provide that the Minister may delegate their functions to the Deputy Minister or other persons employed in the Ministry. SCHEDULE 2 CONSTRUCTION ACT The Schedule makes various amendments to the Construction Act : 1. Section 30 is re-enacted in order to apply with respect to the abandonment or termination of a contract or subcontract, rather than just to a circumstance in which a contractor or subcontractor defaults in the performance of a contract or subcontract. 2. Not-yet-in-force amendments to section 31 that would have been made by section 27 of Schedule 4 to the Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 are repealed. Section 31 is amended to retain the provisions of those amendments that would have been subsections (8) to (10) — dealing with notice of termination and its effects — by adding them as replacements of subsections (6) and (7) of the current section. The not-yet-in-force re-enacted version of section 26 is consequently amended to require the annual release of holdback without the expiry of liens. 3. Section 87.4, dealing with transition connected to the commencement of amendments to the Act made by the Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 , is amended by adding a separate transition rule for project agreements referred to in subsection 1.1 (1) and to make adjustments to the transition rules respecting amendments made to section 31. 4. Transitional regulation-making authority in section 88 is made more generally applicable and is transferred from the Lieutenant Governor in Council to the Minister. A definition of “Minister” is added to subsection 1 (1) and other complementary amendments are made to the Act for the purpose. The substantive amendments are to come into force at the same time as related amendments to the Act made by the Building Ontario For You Act (Budget Measures), 2024 . SCHEDULE 3 DEVELOPMENT CHARGES ACT, 1997 New section 5.3 of the Development Charges Act, 1997 provides special rules respecting the determination of the estimate for the increase in the need for the class required by new subsection 7 (3.1). New subsection 7 (3.1) of the Act requires a development charge by-law that imposes development charges in respect of capital costs described in paragraph 1 of subsection 5 (3) to provide for a class consisting only of those capital costs, subject to certain exceptions. Section 10 of the Act currently requires councils to complete a development charge background study before passing a development charge by-law. New subsection 10 (5) requires the council to give a copy of the background study to the Minister upon request, by the deadline specified in the request. New subsection 13 (5) of the Act requires the council of a municipality to give a copy of a development charge by-law passed by the municipality to the Minister on request, by the deadline specified in the request. Section 35 of the Act currently provides that the money in a reserve fund established for a service may be spent on capital costs determined under paragraphs 2 to 7 of subsection 5 (1). New subsection 35 (1.1) provides that such money in a reserve fund may be spent on the capital costs of that service described in paragraph 1 of subsection 5 (3), provided the costs are ones determined under paragraphs 2 to 7 of subsection 5 (1) that are not paid for with money in the reserve fund established for a class required by subsection 7 (3.1).