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Marginal note:Incorporation by reference

• 2 (1) Except as otherwise provided, any reference in these Regulations to a document is a reference to the document as amended from time to time.

• (2) For the purpose of interpreting a document incorporated by reference into these Regulations,

  • (a) “Administration” is to be read as “Minister” in respect of

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  • (b) “ship” is to be read as “vessel”;

  • (c) “survey” is to be read as “inspection”; and

  • (d) “discharge”, in respect of ballast water, is to be read as “release”.

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• Marginal note:Definition of viable organisms

  (4) For the purpose of interpreting regulation D-2 of the Annex, viable organisms has the same meaning as in the BWMS Code.

Marginal note:Definitions

• 1 (1) The following definitions apply in these Regulations.

  ballast water

  ballast water  has the same meaning as in article 1 of the Convention. (eaux de ballast)

  ballast water management

  ballast water management  has the same meaning as in article 1 of the Convention. (gestion des eaux de ballast)

  ballast water management system

  ballast water management system  has the same meaning as in the BWMS Code. (système de gestion des eaux de ballast)

  Great Lakes Basin

  Great Lakes Basin  means the waters of the Great Lakes, their connecting and tributary waters and the waters of the St. Lawrence River as far as the lower exit of the St. Lambert Lock at Montréal in Quebec. (bassin des Grands Lacs)

• Marginal note:Authorized representative

  (2) For the purposes of these Regulations, a reference to the authorized representative of a pleasure craft that is not a Canadian vessel is to be read as a reference to the owner and operator of the pleasure craft.

Marginal note:Residual amounts

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• (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), saltwater flushing consists of the following measures undertaken in the following order:

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  • (c) the release, in accordance with the requirements for ballast water exchange set out in subsection 14(1), of the waters mixed under paragraph (b) so that the salinity of the resulting residual amounts in the tanks exceeds 30 parts per thousand or is as close as possible to 30 parts per thousand.

Marginal note:Alternative methods

13 A vessel may, instead of conducting ballast water management to meet the ballast water exchange standard or the ballast water performance standard, as applicable,

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• (b) release potable water, taken on board as ballast water from a public or commercial source in Canada or the United States, into waters under Canadian jurisdiction or on the high seas if it has not been mixed with other ballast water, including residual amounts, or with sediments.

Marginal note:Deemed compliance

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• Marginal note:Definition of eastern waters of the St. Lawrence River

  (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), eastern waters of the St. Lawrence River means the waters of the St. Lawrence River from the lower exit of the St. Lambert Lock at Montréal in Quebec as far seaward as a straight line drawn from Cap-des-Rosiers to Pointe Ouest, Anticosti Island, and from Anticosti Island to the north shore of the St. Lawrence River along the meridian of longitude 63° W, and their connecting and tributary waters.