RELATED PROVISIONS

• — 2003, c. 7, s. 125

  Application of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act

  • 125. (1) Notwithstanding section 6, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act continues to apply — to the exclusion of the provisions of this Act respecting projects — in respect of a proposal for a project that was referred, before the coming into force of Part 2 of this Act, to a mediator or a review panel pursuant to that Act.

  • Application of Canadian Environmental Assessment Act

    (2) Notwithstanding section 6, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act continues to apply — to the exclusion of the provisions of this Act respecting projects — in respect of a proposal for a project for which a screening or comprehensive study was commenced under that Act before the coming into force of Part 2 of this Act, but where the project is referred to a review panel pursuant to subsection 29(1) of that Act, that Act ceases to apply and section 63 of this Act applies as if the Minister of the Environment had agreed to a request made by the executive committee under paragraph 61(1)(b).

• — 2003, c. 9, s. 32

  Review

  • 32. (1) Within seven years after this Act receives royal assent, a comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act shall be undertaken by such committee of the Senate, of the House of Commons or of both Houses of Parliament as may be designated or established by the Senate or the House of Commons, or by both Houses of Parliament, as the case may be, for that purpose.

  • Report

    (2) The committee referred to in subsection (1) shall, within a year after a review is undertaken pursuant to that subsection or within such further time as may be authorized by the Senate, the House of Commons or both Houses of Parliament, as the case may be, submit a report on the review to Parliament, including a statement of any changes that the committee recommends.

• — 2003, c. 9, s. 33

  Non-application of amended provisions to assessments already commenced

  33. Any environmental assessment or assessment of the environmental effects of a project commenced under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act before this section comes into force shall be continued and completed as if this Act had not been enacted.

• — 2010, c. 12, s. 2162

  Non-application of amended provisions to certain comprehensive studies

  2162. Any comprehensive study of a project commenced under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act before the day on which this section comes into force must be continued and completed as if this Act had not come into force if, before that day, the Minister referred the project to the responsible authority to continue the comprehensive study.

• — 2010, c. 12, s. 2163

  Period calculation

  2163. With respect to a comprehensive study of a project commenced under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act before the day on which this section comes into force and in relation to which section 2162 does not apply, the period referred to in section 21.1 of that Act, as enacted by section 2156, is deemed to commence on that day.