Canada Marine Act

Marginal note:Regulations

• 74 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the management, control, development and use of public ports and public port facilities, including regulations respecting

  • (a) the navigation and use by ships of a public port, including the mooring, berthing and loading and unloading of ships and equipment for the loading and unloading of ships;

  • (b) the use and environmental protection of public ports and public port facilities, including the regulation or prohibition of equipment, structures, works and operations;

  • (c) the removal, destruction or disposal of any ship, part of a ship, structure, work or other thing that interferes with navigation within the limits of a public port and provision for the recovery of the costs incurred;

  • (d) the maintenance of order and the safety of persons and property within the limits of a public port or at a public port facility;

  • (d.1) the information or documents that must be provided by the owner or the person in charge of a ship to the Minister;

  • (e) the regulation of persons, vehicles or aircraft within the limits of a public port or at a public port facility;

  • (f) the regulation or prohibition of the excavation, removal or deposit of material or of any other action that is likely to affect in any way the navigability of a public port or the operation of a public port facility or to affect any of the lands adjacent to a port or facility; and

  • (g) the regulation or prohibition of the transportation, handling or storing, within the limits of a public port or at a public port facility, of explosives or other substances that, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, constitute or are likely to constitute a danger or hazard to life or property.

• Marginal note:Application

  (2) A regulation made under subsection (1) may apply to only one public port or public port facility.

• Marginal note:Application to Crown

  (3) A regulation made under subsection (1) may be made binding on Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province.