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National Energy Board Act

Version of section 29 from 2002-12-31 to 2016-06-18:


Marginal note:Companies only

  •  (1) No person, other than a company, shall construct or operate a pipeline.

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (2) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit or prevent any person from operating or improving a pipeline constructed before October 1, 1953, but every such pipeline shall be operated in accordance with this Act.

  • Marginal note:Powers of liquidators, trustees, etc.

    (3) For the purposes of this Act,

    • (a) a liquidator, receiver or manager of the property of a company, appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction to carry on the business of the company,

    • (b) a trustee — or the holder of a power of attorney within the meaning of the Civil Code of Québec — for the holders of bonds, debentures, debenture stock or other evidence of indebtedness of the company, secured under a trust deed, an act constituting a hypothec or other instrument or act, on or against the property of the company, if the trustee or holder is authorized by the instrument or act to carry on the business of the company, and

    • (c) a person, other than a company,

      • (i) operating a pipeline constructed before October 1, 1953, or

      • (ii) constructing or operating a pipeline exempted from subsection (1) by an order of the Board made under subsection 58(1),

    is deemed to be a company.

  • Marginal note:Administrator in Province of Quebec

    (3.1) In the Province of Quebec the administrator of the property of the company appointed by a court of competent jurisdiction to carry on the business of the company is also deemed to be the company.

  • R.S., 1985, c. N-7, s. 29
  • 2001, c. 4, s. 102

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