Canada Shipping Act, 2001

Marginal note:Regulations

• 190 (1) The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations respecting the protection of the marine environment, including regulations

  • (a) prescribing pollutants for the purpose of section 187 and subsection 189(1) and respecting the circumstances in which such pollutants may be discharged;

  • (b) respecting the circumstances in which persons on board vessels shall report discharges or anticipated discharges, the manner of making the reports and the persons to whom the reports shall be made;

  • (c) respecting the carrying of pollutants on board a vessel, whether as cargo or fuel;

  • (d) respecting the control and prevention of pollution of the air by vessels;

  • (e) respecting reception facilities for oily residues, chemical residues, garbage and sewage;

  • (f) respecting the control and management of ballast water;

  • (g) for preventing or reducing the release by vessels into waters of aquatic organisms or pathogens that, if released into those waters, could create hazards to human health, harm organisms, damage amenities, impair biological diversity or interfere with legitimate uses of the waters;

  • (h) respecting the design, construction, manufacture and maintenance of vessels or classes of vessels;

  • (i) specifying the machinery, equipment and supplies that must be on board vessels or classes of vessels;

  • (j) respecting the design, construction, manufacture, maintenance, storage, testing, arrangement and use of vessels’ or classes of vessels’ machinery, equipment and supplies;

  • (k) respecting the requirements that vessels, or classes of vessels, and their machinery and equipment must meet;

  • (l) requiring the obtaining of certificates certifying that any of the requirements referred to in paragraph (k) are met;

  • (m) respecting the inspection and testing of vessels, or classes of vessels, and their machinery, equipment and supplies; and

  • (n) respecting shipboard hazardous and noxious substances pollution emergency plans.

• Marginal note:Application of regulations

  (2) Regulations made under subsection (1) apply in respect of vessels that are capable of engaging in the drilling for, or the production, conservation or processing of, oil or gas only if the regulations so state and were made on the joint recommendation of the Minister and the Minister of Natural Resources.