Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Atlantic Accord Implementation and Offshore Renewable Energy Management Act

Marginal note:Regulations

• 5 (1) Subject to section 7, the Governor in Council may make regulations

  • (a) prescribing lines enclosing areas adjacent to the Province for the purpose of subparagraph (a)(i) of the definition offshore area in section 2; and

  • (b) amending paragraph (b) of that definition.

• Marginal note:Issue of charts

  (2) The Federal Minister may cause charts to be issued setting out the offshore area or any portion thereof as may be set out consistent with the nature and scale of the chart.

• Marginal note:Evidence

  (3) In any legal or other proceedings, a chart purporting to be issued by or under the authority of the Federal Minister is conclusive proof of the limits of the offshore area or portion thereof set out in the chart without proof of the signature or official character of the person purporting to have issued the chart.