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Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act (S.C. 1989, c. 3)

Act current to 2024-03-06 and last amended on 2019-08-28. Previous Versions

AMENDMENTS NOT IN FORCE

  • — 2018, c. 10, s. 67, as amended by 2019, c. 28, s. 194(2)

    • 1998, c. 20, s. 17(2)
      • 67 (1) Subsection 28(4) of the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board Act is replaced by the following:

        • Use by Board

          (4) The Board may make any use of any on-board recording obtained under this Act that it considers necessary in the interests of transportation safety, but, subject to subsections (5) and (5.1), shall not knowingly communicate or permit to be communicated to anyone any portion of the recording that is unrelated to the causes or contributing factors of the transportation occurrence under investigation or to the identification of safety deficiencies.

      • (2) Section 28 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (5):

        • Power to provide access to certain persons

          (5.1) In the case of a transportation occurrence that is required to be reported under this Act to the Board and that is investigated under this Act, the Board may make an on-board recording related to the occurrence available to a person who is expressly authorized under the Aeronautics Act, the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, the Railway Safety Act or the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 to use or communicate it and, if the Board does so, the person may only use or communicate it in accordance with the express authorization

        • Authorization under another Act

          (5.2) Nothing in this section prevents the use or communication of an on-board recording if that use or communication is expressly authorized under the Aeronautics Act, the Canadian Energy Regulator Act, the Railway Safety Act or the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 and

          • (a) there has been no transportation occurrence that is required to be reported under this Act to the Board that involves the means of transportation to which the recording relates; or

          • (b) there has been a transportation occurrence that is required to be reported under this Act to the Board that involves the means of transportation to which the recording relates but that is not investigated under this Act.


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