Canada Shipping Act, 2001

Marginal note:Direction to cease — master

• 111 (1) The Minister may direct a master to cease any operation that, in the Minister’s opinion, poses an undue risk because of unsafe conditions.

• Marginal note:Direction to take measures — master

  (2) The Minister may direct a master to take measures that, in the Minister’s opinion, are necessary to avoid an undue risk because of unsafe conditions, including a direction to

  • (a) provide the Minister with any information that the Minister considers appropriate to assess or deal with risks to marine safety;

  • (b) proceed by the route and in the manner that the Minister specifies; and

  • (c) proceed to a place that the Minister selects, by the route and in the manner that the Minister specifies, and

    • (i) unload the vessel’s cargo, or

    • (ii) moor, anchor or remain there for any reasonable period that the Minister specifies.

• Marginal note:Direction to authorize vessel

  (3) The Minister may direct a port authority or a person in charge of a port authority or place to authorize a vessel in respect of which a direction has been made under paragraph (2)(c) to proceed to the place selected by the Minister and to

  • (a) unload the cargo; or

  • (b) moor, anchor or remain there for any reasonable period that the Minister may specify.