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Law:Canada Marine Act
5 Part 1. Canada Port Authorities
5.3 Agent of Her Majesty
5.5 Continuance of Harbour Commissions
5.6 Initial Port Authorities
5.7 Amalgamation of Port Authorities
5.9 Legal Regime Applicable to Port Authorities
5.10 Capacity and Powers
5.11 Annual Meeting
5.12 Financial Management
5.13 Special Examinations
5.14 Property
5.16 Official Languages
5.17 Liquidation and Dissolution
5.18 Port Traffic Control
5.19 Order and Safety
6 Part 2. Public Ports
6.1 Designation by Governor in Council
6.3 Harbour Masters and Wharfingers
6.4 Agreements
6.5 Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables
6.7 Regulations
6.8 Traffic Control
7 Part 3. Seaway
7.3 Powers of Minister
7.4 Annual Meeting
7.6 Special Examinations
7.8 Fees
7.9 Official Languages Act
7.10 Dissolution
7.11 Regulations
7.12 Traffic Control
8 Part 4. Regulations And Enforcement
8.4 Liability for Fees
8.5.1 Designation
8.5.2 Inspection
8.5.3 Search and Seizure
8.5.4 Detention of Ships
8.6 Other Powers
8.8 Administrative Monetary Penalties
8.9 General Provisions
9 Part 5. Human Resources
9.1 Seaway
9.2 Local Port Corporations
9.3 Harbour Commissions
9.4 Non-corporate Ports of Canada Ports Corporation
9.5 Comparable Employee Benefits
10 Part 6. Miscellaneous
11 Part 7. Amendments To The Pilotage Act
12 Part 8. Consequential Amendments, Repeals And Coming Into Force
12.2 Repeals
14 Initial Port Authorities
16 Port Authorities That Are Not Initial Port Authorities
“goods” includes personal property and movables, other than ships.
(b) in the case of goods, the agent, sender, consignee or bailee of the goods, as well as the carrier of the goods to, on, over or from any real property or immovables to which this Act applies.
“person” includes a partnership, an association and a body corporate.
« administration portuaire »
“port authority” means a port authority incorporated or continued under this Act.
pan class="De“port facility”
« installation portuaire »
“port facility” means a wharf, pier, breakwater, terminal, warehouse or other building or work that is located in, on or adjacent to navigable waters that is used in connection with navigation or shipping, land incidental to its use and any land adjacent to navigable waters that is used in connection with navigation or shipping.
“public port”
“public port” means a port designated as a public port under section 65.
“public port facility”
“public port facility” means a port facility designated as a public port facility under section 65.
“Seaway”
“Seaway” means the deep waterway between the port of Montreal and the Great Lakes that is constructed and maintained pursuant to the Agreement between Canada and the United States providing for the development of navigation and power in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin, dated March 19, 1941, including the locks, canals and facilities between the port of Montreal and Lake Erie and generally known as the St. Lawrence Seaway.
“ship” means every description of vessel, boat or craft designed, used or capable of being used solely or partly for marine navigation, whether self-propelled or not and without regard to the method of propulsion, and includes a sea-plane and a raft or boom of logs or lumber.
1998, c. 10, s. 2; 2001, c. 4, s. 133; 2008, c. 21, s. 1.
4. In recognition of the significance of marine transportation to Canada and its contribution to the Canadian economy, the purpose of this Act is to
(a) implement marine policies that provide Canada with the marine infrastructure that it needs and that offer effective support for the achievement of national, regional and local social and economic objectives and will promote and safeguard Canada’s competitiveness and trade objectives;
(a.1) promote the success of ports for the purpose of contributing to the competitiveness, growth and prosperity of the Canadian economy;
(b) base the marine infrastructure and services on international practices and approaches that are consistent with those of Canada’s major trading partners in order to foster harmonization of standards among jurisdictions;
(h) promote coordination and integration of marine activities with surface and air transportation systems.
1998, c. 10, s. 4; 2008, c. 21, s. 3.
Part 1. Canada Port Authorities
“airport” means an airport situated in a port.
“letters patent” means letters patent as amended by supplementary letters patent, if any.
“user”, in respect of a port, means a person that makes commercial use of, or provides services at, the port.
1998, c. 10, s. 5; 2001, c. 4, s. 134.
(2) The Minister may, by regulation, amend the schedule.
1998, c. 10, s. 6; 2008, c. 21, s. 4.
8. (1) The Minister may issue letters patent — that take effect on the date stated in them — incorporating a port authority without share capital for the purpose of operating a particular port in Canada if the Minister is satisfied that the port
(b) is of strategic significance to Canada’s trade;
(2) The letters patent shall set out the following:
(c) the navigable waters that are within the port authority’s jurisdiction;
(iii) one individual appointed by the province in which the port is situated, and, in the case of the port wholly or partially located in Vancouver, another individual appointed by the Provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba acting together, and
(l) the limits on the power of the port authority to borrow money on the credit of the port authority for port purposes or a code governing that power, as the case may be; and
(3) Letters patent are not regulations within the meaning of the Statutory Instruments Act, but shall be published in the Canada Gazette and are vaid with respect to third parties as of the date of publication.
1998, c. 10, s. 8; 2001, c. 4, s. 135; 2008, c. 21, s. 5.
Previous VersionSupplementary letters patent
9. (1) The Minister may, either on the Minister’s own initiative and after giving notice of the proposed changes to the board of directors, or when the board of directors has, by resolution, requested it, issue supplementary letters patent amending the letters patent of a port authority if the Minister is satisfied that the amendment is consistent with this Act, and the supplementary letters patent take effect on the date stated in them.
(2) Notice must be given in writing and set out a time limit within which the board of directors may comment to the Minister regarding the proposed changes.
1998, c. 10, s. 9; 2008, c. 21, s. 6.
10. (1) If the Minister is satisfied that the criteria set out in subsection 8(1) are met, the Minister may issue in respect of one or more harbour commissions established under the Harbour Commissions Act, letters patent continuing the harbour commission as a port authority that set out the information required by subsection 8(2).
(2) On the day on which the letters patent are issued, the harbour commission becomes a port authority and the Harbour Commissions Act ceases to apply.
Rights and obligations preserved — harbour commissions
(3) The rights and obligations of a port authority that was one or more harbour commissions immediately before letters patent were issued are as follows:
(d) the personal property or movable, and any rights related to it, that the harbour commission manages, or the title to which it holds, on behalf of Her Majesty in right of Canada, whether or not in its own name, become the property and rights of the port authority;
1998, c. 10, s. 10; 2001, c. 4, s. 136; 2008, c. 21, s. 7.
Previous VersionConsequences for commissioners
Rights and obligations preserved — local port corporations
(d) the personal property or movable, and any rights related to it, that the local port corporation administers, or the title to which it holds, on behalf of Her Majesty in right of Canada, whether or not in its own name, become the property and rights of the port authority;
Rights and obligations preserved — non-corporate ports
(b) the real property and immovables, and any rights related to them, that form part of the port and that the Canada Ports Corporation administers, o the title to which it holds, on behalf of Her Majesty in right of Canada, whether or not in its own name, remain the property and rights of Her Majesty;
(d) the personal property or movable, and any rights related to it, that relate to the port and that the Canada Ports Corporation administers, or the title to which it holds, on behalf of Her Majesty in right of Canada, whether or not in its own name, become the property and rights of the port authority;
1998, c. 10, s. 12; 2001, c. 4, s. 137; 2008, c. 21, s. 8.
Previous VersionConsequences for former directors and commissioners
Subsection 14(2.3)
2008, c. 21, s. 9.
(2.2) A director’s appointment takes effect on the day on which notice of the appointment is received by the port authority.
(2.4) Subject to subsection (2.1) and despite subsection (2), the term of office of a director appointed under subsection (1.1) to fill a vacant position under paragraph (1)(b) or (c) expires on the day on which a director is nominated under that paragraph.
1998, c. 10, s. 14; 2008, c. 21, s. 10.
Previous VersionExperience
1998, c. 10, s. 16; 2003, c. 22, s. 113(E); 2008, c. 21, s. 11.
Previous VersionElection of chairperson
18. Subject to subsection 19(1), where a port authority is continued under section 10 or 12, the directors or commissioners of the former local port corporation or harbour commission, respecti