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Canada Transportation Act

Version of section 142 from 2018-05-23 to 2024-08-18:


Marginal note:Compliance with steps for discontinuance

  •  (1) A railway company shall comply with the steps described in this Division before discontinuing operating a railway line. The railway company shall publish and keep up to date on its Internet site or the Internet site of an association or other entity representing railway companies a report that sets out the date that it commenced and completed each step.

  • Marginal note:Limitation

    (2) A railway company shall not take steps to discontinue operating a railway line before the company’s intention to discontinue operating the line has been indicated in its plan for at least 12 months.

  • Marginal note:Exception

    (2.1) Subsection (2) does not apply to a railway company that is the subject of proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act or the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act.

  • Marginal note:Community-based groups

    (3) Subsection (2) does not apply and a railway company shall without delay take the steps described in section 143 if

    • (a) the federal government, a provincial, municipal or district government or a community-based group endorsed in writing by such a government has written to the company to express an interest in acquiring all or a portion of a grain-dependent branch line that is listed in Schedule I for the purpose of continuing to operate that line or portion of a line; and

    • (b) that line or portion of a line is indicated on the company’s plan as being a line or a portion of a line that the company intends to take steps to discontinue operating.

  • 1996, c. 10, s. 142
  • 2000, c. 16, s. 6
  • 2018, c. 10, s. 33

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