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BILL C-273
First Session, Forty-second Parliament,
64-65 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-273
An Act to amend the Customs Act (marine pleasure craft)
FIRST READING, MAY 17, 2016
Mr. Brown
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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Customs Act to provide an exception to the requirement, under section 11 of that Act, for persons aboard a marine pleasure craft, to present themselves at a customs office upon arrival in Canada.
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1st Session, 42nd Parliament, 
64-65 Elizabeth II, 2015-2016
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-273
An Act to amend the Customs Act (marine pleasure craft)
R.‍S.‍, c. 1 (2nd Supp.‍)
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
1 Section 11 of the Customs Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (5): 
Exception — marine pleasure craft
(5.‍1) Subsections (1) and (3) do not apply to any person who enters Canadian waters, including the inland waters, aboard a marine pleasure craft that does not carry passengers who have paid for passage and that is used exclusively for pleasure while proceeding from one place outside Canada to another place outside Canada without anchoring or docking in Canada. 
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons