C-231
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60 Elizabeth II, 2011
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-231
An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 (derelict vessels and wreck)
first reading, June 16, 2011
NOTE
2nd Session, 41st Parliament
This bill was introduced during the First Session of the 41st Parliament. Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, it is deemed to have been considered and approved at all stages completed at the time of prorogation of the First Session. The number of the bill remains unchanged.
Ms. Crowder
411164
SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 to strengthen the requirements relating to derelict vessels and wreck by ensuring that regulations are made to establish measures to be taken for their removal, disposition or destruction. It provides that the Canadian Coast Guard shall be designated as a receiver of wreck for the purposes of Part 7 of the Act, and requires receivers of wreck to take reasonable steps to determine and locate the owners of the wreck.
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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60 Elizabeth II, 2011
house of commons of canada
BILL C-231
An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 (derelict vessels and wreck)
2001, c. 26
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1. Section 154 of the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 is amended by adding the following after subsection (1): 
Canadian Coast Guard designated
(1.1) In addition to any designations that may be made under subsection (1), the Minister shall, after consultation with the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, designate the Canadian Coast Guard as a receiver of wreck for the purposes of this Part.
2. Subsections 155(2) and (3) of the Act are replaced by the following:
Locating owner
(2) If wreck has been reported to a receiver of wreck or observed by a receiver of wreck or a person authorized or within a class of persons authorized under subsection 154(2), the receiver of wreck shall take reasonable steps to determine and locate the owner of the wreck, including by giving notice of the wreck in the manner that the receiver considers most effective and appropriate.
Taking measures
(3) A receiver of wreck shall, in the circumstances described in regulations made under subsection 163(1.1) take, or direct persons authorized or within a class of persons authorized under subsection 154(2) to take, measures in accordance with those regulations in order to remove, dispose of, or destroy wreck.
3. Section 163 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1):
Regulations — Minister and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans
(1.1) The Governor in Council shall, on the recommendation of the Minister and the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, make regulations respecting
(a) the appropriate measures that receivers of wreck are to take, or that persons authorized or within a class of persons authorized under subsection 154(2) may be directed to take, to remove, dispose of, or destroy wreck; and
(b) the circumstances in which the measures referred to in paragraph (a) shall be taken.
4. The Act is amended by adding the following after section 164:
Report to Parliament
Review and report by Minister
164.1 Every five years, the Minister must review the operation of this Part and have laid before each House of Parliament a report setting out the results of the review.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons