s.3 — Application of Act

3 (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act applies to a proceeding by a tribunal in the exercise of a statutory power of decision conferred by or under an Act of the Legislature, where the tribunal is required by or under such Act or otherwise by law to hold or to afford to the parties to the proceeding an opportunity for a hearing before making a decision.  ; (2) This Act does not apply to a proceeding, (a)  before the Assembly or any committee of the Assembly; (b)  in or before, (i)  the Court of Appeal, (ii)  the Superior Court of Justice, (iii)  the Ontario Court of Justice, (iv)  the Family Court of the Superior Court of Justice, (v)  the Small Claims Court, or (vi)  a justice of the peace; (c)  to which the Rules of Civil Procedure apply; (d)  before an arbitrator to which the Arbitration Act, 1991 or the Labour Relations Act, 1995 applies; (e)  at a coroner’s inquest; (f)  of a commission appointed under the Public Inquiries Act, 2009; (g)  of one or more persons required to make an investigation and to make a report, with or without recommendations, where the report is for the information or advice of the person to whom it is made and does not in any way legally bind or limit that person in any decision he or she may have power to make; or (h)  of a tribunal empowered to make regulations, rules or by-laws in so far as its power to make regulations, rules or by-laws is concerned.  ; ; ; ;