Marginal note:Contraventions Act

• 13.1 (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 all or specified offences under this Act that have been designated as contraventions under the Contraventions Act.

Marginal note:Certificate of designation and oath

• 13.2 (1) Every park warden, enforcement officer and person designated under section 13.1 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

14. 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

14.1 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:Establishment of committee

• 15. (1) A harmonization committee, made up of representatives of the Minister and the Quebec minister, is hereby established for the purposes of ensuring harmonization and implementing the activities and programs of the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec with respect to the park, in particular with respect to the protection of ecosystems, planning, management, issuance of permits and other authorizations, consultation, the programming of activities, communications and the ways in which infrastructures, installations and equipment are to be shared.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (2) The harmonization committee also is to harmonize draft regulations to be made under this Act and draft regulations that are to be made under the law of the Province of Quebec that creates the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park.

• Marginal note:Representatives of the Minister

  (3) The Minister shall name his or her representative or representatives on the harmonization committee.