Canada Marine Act

Marginal note:Persons excluded

16 The following individuals may not be directors of a port authority:

• (a) an individual who is a mayor, councillor, officer or employee of a municipality mentioned in the letters patent;

• (b) an individual who is a member of the legislature of a province, or an officer or employee of the public service or of a Crown corporation of a province, mentioned in the letters patent;

• (c) a Senator or a member of Parliament or an officer or employee of the federal public administration, including an officer or employee in a federal Crown corporation;

• (d) an individual who is not a resident Canadian, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Canada Business Corporations Act;

• (e) an individual who is a director, officer or employee of a person who is a user of the port;

• (f) an individual who is under eighteen years of age;

• (g) an individual who has been declared mentally incompetent by a court in Canada or elsewhere; or

• (h) an undischarged bankrupt.