Marginal note:Construction

3. For greater certainty, the provisions of this Act shall not be interpreted as providing a basis for any claim by or on behalf of any province in respect of any interest in or legislative jurisdiction over any offshore area or any living or non-living resources of any offshore area.

Marginal note:Precedence over other Acts of Parliament

4. In case of any inconsistency or conflict between

• (a) this Act or any regulations made thereunder, and

• (b) any other Act of Parliament that applies to the offshore area or any regulations made under such an Act,

this Act and the regulations made thereunder take precedence.

Marginal note:Regulations

• 5. (1) Subject to section 6, the Governor in Council may make regulations amending the description of the limits set out in Schedule I for the purposes of the definition “offshore area”.

• Marginal note:Issue of charts

  (2) The Federal Minister may cause charts to be issued setting out the offshore area or any portion thereof as may be set out consistent with the nature and scale of the chart.

• Marginal note:Evidence

  (3) In any legal or other proceedings, a chart purporting to be issued by or under the authority of the Federal Minister is conclusive proof of the limits of the offshore area or portion thereof set out in the chart without proof of the signature or official character of the person purporting to have issued the chart.

Marginal note:Approval of Provincial Minister prior to making certain regulations

6. Before a regulation is made pursuant to subsection 5(1), 17(4), 35(8), 39(7) or 45(7), section 67, subsection 70(2), section 121, subsection 125(1), 128(1), 153(1), 157(5) or 165(4) or section 208, 245 or 248, the Federal Minister shall consult the Provincial Minister with respect to the proposed regulation and no regulation shall be so made without the approval of the Provincial Minister.

Marginal note:Amendment of Accord

7. The Government of Canada, as represented by the Prime Minister of Canada or by such other member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada as may be designated by the Governor in Council, may, jointly with the Government of Nova Scotia, amend the Accord from time to time.

Marginal note:Application

• 8. (1) Except as otherwise provided by this Act, this Act applies within the offshore area.

• Marginal note:Excluded legislation

  (2) Subject to section 103, the Canada Petroleum Resources Act and the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act and any regulations made under those Acts do not apply within the offshore area.