Projects Outside Canada Environmental Assessment Regulations (SOR/96-491)

Regulations are current to 2012-05-14

Projects Outside Canada Environmental Assessment Regulations

SOR/96-491

CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT ACT

Registration 1996-11-07

Projects Outside Canada Environmental Assessment Regulations

P.C. 1996-1716  1996-11-07

His Excellency the Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, pursuant to subparagraph 59(i)(ii) of the Canadian Environmental Assessment ActFootnote a, hereby makes the annexed Projects Outside Canada Environmental Assessment Regulations.

INTERPRETATION

1. In these Regulations, “Act” means the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.

APPLICATION

2. These Regulations apply with respect to projects to be carried out outside Canada and any federal lands and in respect of which a federal authority exercises a power or performs a duty or function described in paragraph 5(1)(a) or (b) of the Act.

VARIATION AND EXCLUSION

  • 3. (1) Certain procedures and requirements of the environmental assessment process set out in sections 14 to 45 of the Act are varied, and portions thereof are excluded, such that the environmental assessment process for projects is the process described in the schedule.

  • (2) For greater certainty, projects to which these Regulations apply are excluded from the application of section 3 of the Comprehensive Study List Regulations.

COMING INTO FORCE

4. These Regulations come into force on November 7, 1996.