C-651
Second Session, Forty-first Parliament,
62-63 Elizabeth II, 2013-2014-2015
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-651
An Act to amend the Museums Act in order to establish the Canadian Railway Museum
first reading, January 28, 2015
Mr. Chicoine
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Museums Act to establish a corporation called the Canadian Railway Museum. It also sets out the purpose, capacity and powers of the Canadian Railway Museum and makes consequential amendments to other Acts.
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2nd Session, 41st Parliament,
62-63 Elizabeth II, 2013-2014-2015
house of commons of canada
BILL C-651
An Act to amend the Museums Act in order to establish the Canadian Railway Museum
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
SHORT TITLE
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Canadian Railway Museum Act.
1990, c. 3
MUSEUMS ACT
2. The Museums Act is amended by adding the following after section 15.6:
Establishment of the Canadian Railway Museum
Establishment
15.7 (1) There is established a corporation to be called the Canadian Railway Museum.
Affiliated museums
(2) The Canadian Railway Museum shall include any affiliated museums that the Board of the Canadian Railway Museum may, by by-law, establish with the approval of the Governor in Council.
Purpose, capacity and powers of the Canadian Railway Museum
Purpose
15.8 The purpose of the Canadian Railway Museum is to promote the role that railways have played throughout Canada's history and to preserve Canada’s railway heritage.
Capacity and powers
15.9 (1) In furtherance of its purpose, the Canadian Railway Museum has, subject to this Act, the capacity of a natural person and, elsewhere than in Quebec, the rights, powers and privileges of a natural person. In particular, the Canadian Railway Museum may
(a) collect museum material relating to railroad transportation;
(b) maintain its collection by preservation, conservation or restoration or the establishment of records or documentation;
(c) sell, exchange, give away, destroy or otherwise dispose of museum material in its collection and use any revenue obtained from that disposal to further its collection;
(d) lend or borrow museum material on long- or short-term loan;
(e) organize, sponsor, arrange for or participate in travelling exhibitions, in Canada and internationally, of museum material in its collection and from other sources;
(f) undertake or sponsor any research related to its purpose or to museology, and communicate the results of that research;
(g) provide facilities to permit qualified individuals to use or study its collection;
(h) promote knowledge and disseminate information related to its purpose, throughout Canada and internationally, by any appropriate means of education and communication;
(i) establish and foster liaison with other organizations that have a purpose similar to its own;
(j) share the expertise of its staff by undertaking or sponsoring training and apprenticeship programs that relate to its purpose;
(k) provide or arrange for professional and technical services to other organizations that have a purpose similar to its own;
(l) acquire property by gift, bequest or otherwise, hold that property in trust or otherwise and expend, invest, administer and dispose of that property;
(m) develop, operate and maintain branches or exhibition centres;
(n) operate restaurants, lounges, parking facilities, shops and other facilities for the use of the public;
(o) lease or otherwise make available any of its facilities to other persons; and
(p) charge for goods, services and admission and use the revenue so obtained for its own purposes.
Restriction
(2) The Canadian Railway Museum may deal with property only in accordance with the terms on which it was acquired or is held.
3. (1) Subsection 23(1) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Director
23. (1) Subject to subsections (1.1) to (1.3), there shall be a Director of each museum who shall be appointed, with the approval of the Governor in Council, by the museum’s Board to hold office during pleasure for a term of not more than five years.
(2) Section 23 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (1.2):
Director of the Canadian Railway Museum
(1.3) The Governor in Council shall, by order, on the recommendation of the Minister, appoint the first Director of the Canadian Railway Museum to hold office during pleasure for a term of not more than five years.
(3) Subsection 23(5) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Remuneration
(5) Subject to subsections (5.1) to (5.3), the Director shall be paid by the museum any remuneration that the Board, with the approval of the Governor in Council, may determine.
(4) Section 23 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (5.2):
Remuneration — first Director of the Canadian Railway Museum
(5.3) The first Director of the Canadian Railway Museum shall be paid by that museum for the duration of his or her first term of office any remuneration that the Governor in Council may, by order, on the recommendation of the Minister, determine.
TRANSITIONAL PROVISION
Appropriation
4. Subject to approval by the Governor in Council of the corporate plan of the Canadian Railway Museum, there may be paid out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund, on the requisition of the Minister of Canadian Heritage, a sum not exceeding $5 million to the museum for operating and capital expenditures that it incurs in the first 12 months after the coming into force of this Act. That amount may be modified by any appropriation Act.
CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
R.S., c. A-1
Access to Information Act
5. Paragraph 68(c) of the Access to Information Act is replaced by the following:
(c) material placed in the Library and Archives of Canada, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of History, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the National Museum of Science and Technology, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 or the Canadian Railway Museum by or on behalf of persons or organizations other than government institutions.
6. Schedule I to the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading “OTHER GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS”:
Canadian Railway Museum
Musée ferroviaire canadien
R.S., c. F-11
Financial Administration Act
7. Part I of Schedule III to the Financial Administration Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:
Canadian Railway Museum
Musée ferroviaire canadien
R.S., c. P-21
Privacy Act
8. Paragraph 69(1)(b) of the Privacy Act is replaced by the following:
(b) material placed in the Library and Archives of Canada, the National Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Museum of History, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the National Museum of Science and Technology, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 or the Canadian Railway Museum by or on behalf of persons or organizations other than government institutions.
9. The schedule to the Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order under the heading “OTHER GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS”:
Canadian Railway Museum
Musée ferroviaire canadien
1991, c. 30
Public Sector Compensation Act
10. Schedule II to the Public Sector Compensation Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:
Canadian Railway Museum
Musée ferroviaire canadien
R.S., c. P-36; 2003, c. 22, s. 209
Public Service Superannuation Act
11. Part I of Schedule I to the Public Service Superannuation Act is amended by adding the following in alphabetical order:
Canadian Railway Museum
Musée ferroviaire canadien
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