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An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence) (S.C. 2015, c. 28)

Assented to 2015-06-18

An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence)

S.C. 2015, c. 28

Assented to 2015-06-18

An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence)

SUMMARY

This enactment requires the Governor in Council to amend the Marine Mammal Regulations to increase the distance that a person must maintain from another person who is fishing for seals, except under the authority of a seal fishery observation licence.

SOR/93-56

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

 Within 60 days after this Act comes into force, the Governor in Council is to make the following amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations:

  • (a) paragraph 32(2)(d) is replaced by the following:

    • (d) whether the applicant has a stated aim of disrupting the seal fishery or has been convicted, in the five years preceding the application for the licence, of tagging, marking or moving a live seal, of contravening subsection 33(1) or of violating a condition of a seal fishery observation licence; and

  • (b) subsection 33(1) is replaced by the following:

    • 33. (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall, except under the authority of a seal fishery observation licence issued by the Minister, approach within one nautical mile of a person who is fishing for seals.

  • (c) paragraph 33(2)(e) is replaced by the following:

    • (e) to a person who resides on land within one nautical mile of a person who is fishing for seals.


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