C-555
Second Session, Forty-first Parliament,
62-63-64 Elizabeth II, 2013-2014-2015
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-555
An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence)
AS PASSED
BY THE HOUSE OF COMMONSFEBRUARY 17, 2015
412090
SUMMARY
This enactment requires the Governor in Council to amend the Marine Mammal Regulations to increase the distance that a person must maintain from another person who is fishing for seals, except under the authority of a seal fishery observation licence. 
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2nd Session, 41st Parliament,
62-63-64 Elizabeth II, 2013-2014-2015
house of commons of canada
BILL C-555
An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence)
SOR/93-56
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1. Within 60 days after this Act comes into force, the Governor in Council is to make the following amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations:
(a) paragraph 32(2)(d) is replaced by the following:
(d) whether the applicant has a stated aim of disrupting the seal fishery or has been convicted, in the five years preceding the application for the licence, of tagging, marking or moving a live seal, of contravening subsection 33(1) or of violating a condition of a seal fishery observation licence; and
(b) subsection 33(1) is replaced by the following:
33. (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall, except under the authority of a seal fishery observation licence issued by the Minister, approach within one nautical mile of a person who is fishing for seals.
(c) paragraph 33(2)(e) is replaced by the following:
(e) to a person who resides on land within one nautical mile of a person who is fishing for seals.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons