National Parks General Regulations (SOR/78-213)
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National Parks General Regulations
SOR/78-213
Registration 1978-03-03
General Regulations for the Control and Management of National Parks
P.C. 1978-596 1978-03-02
His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, pursuant to subsection 7(1) of the National Parks Act, is pleased hereby to revoke the National Parks General Regulations made by Order in Council P.C. 1954-1918 of 8th December, 1954Footnote 1, as amendedFootnote 2, and to make the annexed General Regulations for the control and management of National Parks.
Return to footnote 1SOR/54-666, Canada Gazette Part II, Vol. 88, No. 24, December 22, 1954, p. 2823 and 1955 Consolidation, Vol. 3, p. 2446
Return to footnote 2SOR/75-328, Canada Gazette Part II, Vol. 109, No. 12, June 25, 1975
SHORT TITLE
1. These Regulations may be cited as the National Parks General Regulations.
INTERPRETATION
2. In these Regulations,
- “Act”
“Act” means the National Parks Act; (version anglaise seulement)
- “cave”
“cave” means any subterranean cavern or area, either natural or man-made; (cavernes)
- “commercial boat”
“commercial boat” means a vessel that carries persons or cargo for hire or reward and includes a vessel chartered or hired for pleasure purposes by or on behalf of the persons carried on the vessel. (bateau commercial)
- “Director”
“Director”[Repealed, SOR/93-167, s. 1]
- “explosive”
“explosive” means gunpowder, blasting powder, nitroglycerine, gun-cotton, dynamite, blasting gelatine, gelignite, fulminates of mercury or other metals, coloured fires and every other substance made, manufactured or used to produce a violent effect by explosion or a pyrotechnic effect and includes fuses, fireworks, rockets, percussion caps, detonators, cartridges, ammunition of all descriptions, railway track torpedoes, fusees and other signals and every other adaptation or preparation of any such substance; (explosifs)
- “flora”
“flora” means any plant matter, living or dead, and includes fungi and moulds; (version anglaise seulement)
- “Minister”
“Minister”[Repealed, SOR/93-167, s. 1]
- “moor”
“moor” means to make fast or tie up a watercraft to a wharf or to another watercraft or to use a space or stall at a wharf and includes to dock, beach, store or anchor a watercraft; (amarrage)
- “natural object”
“natural object” means any natural material, soil, sand, gravel, rock, mineral, fossil or other object of natural phenomenon not included within the terms flora and fauna that is located within a Park; (matières naturelles)
- “Park”
“Park”[Repealed, SOR/94-267, s. 1(E)]
- “public recreational facilities”
“public recreational facilities” means a lawn bowling green, golf course, swimming pool and assembly hall in a park; (installation récréative publique)
- “Superintendent”
“Superintendent”[Repealed, SOR/93-167, s. 1]
- “watercourse”
“watercourse” means any river, stream, brook, lake, pond, creek or other flowing or standing water in a Park; (version anglaise seulement)
- “watercraft”
“watercraft” means any boat, canoe, raft, amphibious craft or other type or class of vessel; (embarcation)
- “wharf”
“wharf” means any wharf, dock, pier, jetty, quay, landing, breakwater, mole or sea-wall or any floating structure or device that may be used to moor watercraft. (quais)
- SOR/82-949, s. 1;
- SOR/88-12, s. 1;
- SOR/91-142, s. 1(F);
- SOR/93-167, s. 1;
- SOR/94-267, s. 1(E);
- SOR/94-512, s. 1.