Ballast Water Regulations (SOR/2021-120)

Marginal note:Certain vessels

• 11 (1) Despite regulation B-3 of the Annex, a vessel constructed before the day on which these Regulations come into force is not required to conduct ballast water management to meet the ballast water performance standard until September 8, 2024, and a vessel constructed before January 1, 2009 is not required to conduct ballast water management to meet that standard until September 8, 2030, if the vessel is operated exclusively

  • (a) in waters under Canadian jurisdiction and, if applicable, the United States’ waters of the Great Lakes Basin; or

  • (b) in waters described in paragraph (a) and on the high seas.

• Marginal note:Definition of constructed

  (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), constructed has the same meaning as in regulation A-1 of the Annex.