C-497
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60-61-62 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-497
Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (St. Croix River, Restigouche River and Saint John River)
first reading, April 22, 2013
Mr. Godin
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Navigable Waters Protection Act in order to add the St. Croix River and the Restigouche River to the navigable waters listed in the schedule to that Act and to replace the upstream point of the Saint John River listed in the schedule to that Act, as it will read immediately after the coming into force of section 331 of the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012.
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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60-61-62 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013
house of commons of canada
BILL C-497
Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (St. Croix River, Restigouche River and Saint John River)
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.S., c. N-22
NAVIGABLE WATERS PROTECTION ACT
1. Part 2 of the schedule to the Navigable Waters Protection Act, as it reads immediately after the coming into force of section 331 of the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012, is amended by adding after item 59 in the columns shown the following:
Item: “59.1”
Column 1: “St. Croix River”
Column 2: “45°04′17″ N, 67°05′04″ W”
Column 3: “45°36′41″ N, 67°28′00″ W”
Column 4: “From Spednic Lake to the Atlantic Ocean”
Item: “59.2”
Column 1: “Restigouche River”
Column 2: “48°05′09″ N, 66°21′35″ W”
Column 3: “47°50′36″ N, 67°22′29″ W”
Column 4: “From the confluence with Patapedia River to the Gulf of St. Lawrence”
2. Columns 3 and 4 of item 60 of Part 2 of the schedule to the Act are replaced by the following:
Column 3: “47°10′52″ N, 68°54′00″ W”
Column 4: “From Hafey Island to the Atlantic Ocean”
COMING INTO FORCE
Coming into force
3. This Act comes into force on the later of the day section 331 of the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012 comes into force and the day on which this Act receives royal assent.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons