Canada Transportation Act

Marginal note:Externally produced documents

• 50.01 (1) A regulation made under subsection 50(1) or (1.01) may incorporate by reference any document that is produced by a person or body other than the Minister.

• Marginal note:Type of incorporation by reference

  (2) A document may be incorporated by reference either as it exists on a particular date or as it is amended from time to time.

• Marginal note:Accessibility of incorporated document

  (3) The Minister must ensure that a document that is incorporated by reference is accessible.

• Marginal note:No finding of guilt or administrative sanction

  (4) A person is not liable to be found guilty of an offence or subjected to an administrative sanction for any contravention in respect of which a document that is incorporated by reference is relevant unless, at the time of the alleged contravention, the document was accessible as required by subsection (3) or it was otherwise accessible to that person.

• Marginal note:No registration or publication

  (5) For greater certainty, a document that is incorporated by reference is not required to be transmitted for registration or published in the Canada Gazette by reason only that it is incorporated by reference.