Canadian Navigable Waters Act

Marginal note:Approval of works

• 5 (1) No work shall be built or placed in, on, over, under, through or across any navigable water without the Minister’s prior approval of the work, its site and the plans for it.

• Marginal note:Terms and conditions — substantial interference

  (2) If the Minister considers that the work would substantially interfere with navigation, the Minister may impose any terms and conditions on the approval that the Minister considers appropriate, including requiring that construction of the work be started within six months and finished within three years of the day on which approval is granted or within any other period that the Minister may fix.

• Marginal note:Terms and conditions — other interference

  (3) If the Minister considers that the work would interfere, other than substantially, with navigation, the Minister may impose any terms and conditions on the approval that the Minister considers appropriate, including requiring that construction of the work be started and finished within the period fixed by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Extension of period

  (4) The Minister may, at any time, extend the period by changing the day on which construction of the work shall be started or finished.

• Marginal note:Compliance with plans, regulations and terms and conditions

  (5) The work shall be built, placed, maintained, operated, used and removed in accordance with the plans and the regulations and with the terms and conditions in the approval.