Marginal note:Nomination

• 44. (1) Tout juge d’une cour supérieure peut nommer un agent de police chargé de faire observer la partie III de la Loi sur les transports au Canada, ainsi que les autres lois fédérales ou les lois provinciales touchant la protection des biens qu’administre ou possède la compagnie de chemin de fer, ou dont elle est propriétaire, ou la protection de personnes ou de biens se trouvant en des lieux qu’elle administre ou possède ou dont elle est propriétaire.

• Marginal note:Restriction

  (2) La nomination ne peut se faire que sur demande de la compagnie de chemin de fer qui administre ou possède des biens, ou en est le propriétaire, dans le ressort où le juge a compétence.

• Marginal note:Compétence de l’agent de police

  (3) L’agent de police exerce sa compétence sur les biens que la compagnie de chemin de fer administre ou possède ou dont elle est propriétaire, ainsi qu’en tout lieu se trouvant dans un rayon de cinq cents mètres de ceux-ci.

• Marginal note:Pouvoirs de l’agent de police

  (4) L’agent de police peut amener toute personne inculpée d’une infraction créée par la partie III de la Loi sur les transports au Canada ou par toute autre loi visée au paragraphe (1) devant un tribunal ayant compétence dans le ressort où sont situés des biens que la compagnie de chemin de fer administre ou possède ou dont elle est propriétaire, indépendamment du lieu d’arrestation ou du lieu, réel ou présumé, de perpétration.

• Marginal note:Compétence du tribunal

  (5) Le tribunal statue sur le cas comme si l’inculpé avait été arrêté dans son ressort et y avait commis l’infraction, sauf si le lieu présumé de perpétration est situé à l’extérieur de la province.

• Marginal note:Destitution ou licenciement

  (6) Tout juge visé au paragraphe (1) ou la compagnie de chemin de fer peut destituer ou licencier l’agent de police, ce qui met fin à l’exercice des attributions qui lui sont conférées aux termes du présent article.

• Marginal note:Dépôt

  (2) La compagnie de chemin de fer dépose auprès du ministre un double de la procédure. Elle met en oeuvre les recommandations de celui-ci, notamment celles concernant les moyens de porter à la connaissance du public l’existence de la procédure.

• (g) railway operating certificates issued under section 17.4 and notices of decision given under section 17.5; or

• (h) orders made under section 36.

Regulations — General

Marginal note:Regulations — safety management systems

• 47.1 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations respecting safety management systems including, but not limited to, regulations respecting

  • (a) the establishment by companies of safety management systems that include

    • (i) the identification of an executive who is

      • (A) responsible for operations and activities of a company, and

      • (B) accountable for the extent to which the requirements of the safety management system have been met,

    • (ii) the implementation, as a result of a risk management analysis, of the remedial action required to maintain the highest level of safety,

    • (iii) the continuous monitoring and regular assessment of the level of safety achieved,

    • (iv) in the case of a railway company, the implementation of non-punitive internal reporting and confidential reporting to Transport Canada by employees of contraventions of this Act or of any regulations, rules, certificates, orders or emergency directives under this Act relating to safety, or of other safety concerns, and

    • (v) in the case of a railway company, the involvement of employees and their collective bargaining agents in the ongoing operation of the safety management system;

  • (b) the development and implementation of safety management systems by companies, including the involvement of employees and their collective bargaining agents in the case of railway companies; and

  • (c) the criteria to which the safety management system must conform as well as the components, including the principle of fatigue science applicable to scheduling, that must be included in a safety management system.

• Marginal note:Release of pollutants

  (2) The Governor in Council may make regulations respecting the release of pollutants into the environment from the operation of railway equipment by a railway company including, but not limited to, regulations respecting

  • (a) the keeping of records and information and their filing with the Minister; and

  • (b) the form and content of labels to be affixed to railway equipment and their placement on railway equipment.

• Marginal note:Environmental management plan

  (3) The Governor in Council may make regulations requiring a railway company to file with the Minister environmental management plans and compliance audits with respect to those plans.

• Marginal note:Application

  (4) A regulation made under this section may be general or applicable to a group or class of companies.

Marginal note:Ministerial regulations — fees and charges

• 47.2 (1) The Minister may make regulations prescribing any fees or charges, or determining the manner of calculating any fees or charges, to be paid

  • (a) for services or the use of facilities provided by the Minister in the administration of this Act; or

  • (b) in relation to the filing of documents and the making of applications for and the issuance of certificates, exemptions, licences or approvals under this Act.

• Marginal note:Limitation

  (2) Her Majesty in right of Canada or a province and the entities named in Schedules II and III to the Financial Administration Act are not liable to pay fees or charges.

• Marginal note:Application

  (3) A regulation made under this section may be general or applicable to a group or class of companies.

Marginal note:Review by House of Commons committee

• 47.3 (1) The Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities of the House of Commons or, if there is not a Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, the appropriate committee of that House may review any regulations made under this Act, either on its own initiative or on receiving a written complaint regarding a specific safety concern. The Committee may hold public hearings and may table its report on its review in the House of Commons.

• Marginal note:Review by Senate committee

  (2) The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications or, if there is not a Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications, the appropriate committee of the Senate may review any regulations made under this Act, either on its own initiative or on receiving a written complaint regarding a specific safety concern. The committee may hold public hearings and may table its report on its review in the Senate.

Marginal note:Statutory review

• 51. (1) The Minister shall, not later than five years after the day on which this section comes into force, appoint one or more persons to carry out a comprehensive review of the operation of this Act.

• Marginal note:Tabling of report

  (2) The Minister shall have a report of the comprehensive review laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first thirty days on which that House is sitting after the Minister receives it.

Marginal note:Agreements to apply transportation law to provincial railways

• 157.1 (1) The Minister may enter into an agreement with a provincial minister responsible for transportation matters providing for the administration, in relation to persons who operate railways within the legislative authority of the province, of any law respecting

  • (a) accident investigations and railway crossings; or

  • (b) railway noise and vibration, or the regulation of the rates and conditions of service of railway companies, to the extent that those matters are governed by this Act.