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An Act to amend certain Acts that relate to the environment and to enact provisions respecting the enforcement of certain Acts that relate to the environment (S.C. 2009, c. 14)

Assented to 2009-06-18

Marginal note:2000, c. 32

CANADA NATIONAL PARKS ACT

29. Paragraph 16(1)(y) of the Canada National Parks Act is replaced by the following:

  • (y) designating provisions of the regulations for the purpose of subsection 24(1); and

30. Sections 20 and 21 of the Act are replaced by the following:

Marginal note:Contraventions Act

  • 19.1 (1) The Minister may designate persons or classes of persons employed in the federal public administration or by a provincial, municipal or local authority or by an aboriginal government for the purpose of the enforcement of this Act or the regulations with respect to offences that have been designated as contraventions under the Contraventions Act.

  • Marginal note:Limitations regarding designations

    (2) The Minister may specify that a designation is in respect of one or more parks or in respect of all or specified offences under this Act that have been designated as contraventions under the Contraventions Act.

Marginal note:Certificate of designation and oath

  • 20. (1) Every park warden, enforcement officer and person designated under section 19.1 shall be provided with a certificate of designation in a form approved by the Minister and shall take and subscribe an oath prescribed by the Minister.

  • Marginal note:Limitations must be specified

    (2) The certificate must specify the limitations, if any, to which the designation is subject.

Marginal note:Right of passage

20.1 In the discharge of their duties, park wardens and enforcement officers and any persons accompanying them may enter on and pass through or over private property without being liable for doing so and without any person having the right to object to that use of the property.

Marginal note:Immunity

20.2 Park wardens and enforcement officers are not personally liable for anything they do or omit to do in good faith under this Act.

Marginal note:Arrest without warrant

21. A park warden or enforcement officer may, in accordance with the Criminal Code, arrest without warrant any person

  • (a) whom the warden or officer finds committing an offence under this Act; or

  • (b) who the warden or officer believes, on reasonable grounds, has committed or is about to commit an offence under this Act.

Marginal note:2002, c. 18, s. 31.4; 2003, c. 22, par. 224(q)(E)

31. Subsections 23(2) and (3) of the French version of the Act are replaced by the following:

  • Marginal note:Confiscation de plein droit

    (2) Dans le cas où leur propriétaire — ou la personne qui a droit à leur possession — ne peut être identifié dans les trente jours suivant la saisie, les objets, ou le produit de leur disposition, sont confisqués au profit de Sa Majesté du chef du Canada, si le garde ou l’agent saisissant est un fonctionnaire de l’administration publique fédérale, ou au profit de Sa Majesté du chef d’une province, si l’agent saisissant est un employé d’une autorité provinciale, municipale ou locale ou d’un gouvernement autochtone.

  • Marginal note:Biens périssables

    (3) Le garde ou l’agent peut disposer, notamment par destruction, des objets saisis périssables; le produit de leur disposition est soit remis à leur propriétaire ou à la personne qui a droit à leur possession, soit, lorsque des poursuites fondées sur la présente loi ont été intentées dans les quatre-vingt-dix jours suivant la saisie, retenu par le garde ou l’agent jusqu’au règlement de l’affaire.