Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act

Marginal note:Charge — ceasing to be registered

• 39 (1) If a person holds, at a particular time, a quantity of a type of fuel in a listed province, if the person was immediately before the particular time registered as a distributor, specified air carrier, specified marine carrier or specified rail carrier in respect of that type of fuel and if the Minister cancels that registration at the particular time, the person must pay to Her Majesty in right of Canada a charge in respect of the fuel and the listed province in the amount determined under section 40, unless the Minister also registers the person at the particular time as

  • (a) a distributor in respect of that type of fuel;

  • (b) a specified air carrier in respect of that type of fuel;

  • (c) a specified marine carrier in respect of that type of fuel; or

  • (d) a specified rail carrier in respect of that type of fuel.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to fuel that is held by the person referred to in that subsection if that person is a registered emitter at the particular time but only to the extent that the fuel is, at the particular time, held by the person at, or is in transit to, a covered facility of the person.

• Marginal note:When charge payable

  (3) The charge under subsection (1) becomes payable at the particular time referred to in that subsection.