Canada Marine Act (S.C. 1998, c. 10)

Act current to 2012-05-14 and last amended on 2012-01-01. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Complaints

  • 52. (1) Any interested person may at any time file a complaint with the Agency that there is unjust discrimination in a fee fixed under subsection 49(1), and the Agency shall consider the complaint without delay and report its findings to the port authority, and the port authority shall govern itself accordingly.

  • Marginal note:Governor in Council may vary or rescind

    (2) Section 40 of the Canada Transportation Act applies, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to every report of the Agency made under subsection (1) as if the report were a decision made pursuant to that Act.

  • 1998, c. 10, s. 52;
  • 2008, c. 21, s. 28(F).
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Marginal note:Fees by contract

53. A port authority may enter into an agreement, that the parties may agree to keep confidential, fixing an amount to be paid to the port authority in respect of the persons and things set out in paragraphs 49(1)(a) to (c) that is different from the fees fixed under those paragraphs.

  • 1998, c. 10, s. 53;
  • 2008, c. 21, s. 29.
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Official Languages

Marginal note:Official Languages Act

54. The Official Languages Act applies to a port authority as a federal institution within the meaning of that Act.

Liquidation and Dissolution

Marginal note:Liquidation and dissolution

  • 55. (1) The Governor in Council may, by issuing a certificate of intent to dissolve, require a port authority to liquidate its assets in accordance with the certificate or the regulations made under paragraph 27(1)(a) and may by a subsequent certificate of dissolution dissolve the port authority, and the letters patent are deemed to be revoked. The net proceeds of liquidation are to be paid on dissolution to Her Majesty in right of Canada.

  • Marginal note:Dissolution where no liquidation

    (2) The Governor in Council may, by issuing a certificate of dissolution, dissolve a port authority without requiring the liquidation of its assets, in which case the obligations and assets of the port authority revert on dissolution to Her Majesty in right of Canada under the administration of the Minister.

  • Marginal note:Publication in Canada Gazette

    (3) A certificate of dissolution issued under this section becomes effective thirty days after the date it is published in the Canada Gazette.

  • Marginal note:Revocation

    (4) The Governor in Council may revoke a certificate of intent to dissolve at any time before the issuance of a certificate of dissolution by the issuance of a certificate of revocation of intent to dissolve.

  • Marginal note:Effect of certificate

    (5) The revocation is effective on the date set out in the certificate of revocation and the port authority may then continue to carry on its activities.