Marine Liability Act

Marginal note:Information returns — receivers

• 117.1 (1) The following persons shall file with the Minister or the Administrator, in accordance with the regulations, information returns in respect of the oil in question:

  • (a) every person who is referred to in Article 10 of the Fund Convention; and

  • (b) every person who is a receiver and receives non-persistent oil in a calendar year in a quantity that is greater than that prescribed by regulations made under paragraph (4)(b).

• Marginal note:Information returns — exporters

  (1.1) The following persons shall file with the Administrator, in accordance with the regulations, information returns in respect of the oil in question:

  • (a) every person who exports, in a calendar year, contributing oil in bulk as cargo in a quantity that is greater than that prescribed by regulations made under paragraph (4)(c); and

  • (b) every person who exports, in a calendar year, non-persistent oil in bulk as cargo in a quantity that is greater than that prescribed by regulations made under paragraph (4)(d).

• Marginal note:Definition of person

  (2) In subsections (1) and (1.1), person includes two or more persons who are associated persons.

• Marginal note:Definition of associated persons

  (3) In subsection (2), associated persons means

  • (a) persons who are deemed to be associated persons under section 60, in the case of persons who are referred to in Article 10 of the Fund Convention;

  • (b) persons who are deemed to be associated persons under section 74.3, in the case of persons who are receivers; and

  • (c) persons each of whom is an affiliate of the other as defined in section 2 of the Canada Business Corporations Act, in the case of persons who export.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (4) The Governor in Council may make regulations

  • (a) respecting, for the purposes of subsections (1) and (1.1), information returns;

  • (b) respecting, for the purposes of paragraph (1)(b), a quantity of non-persistent oil;

  • (c) respecting, for the purposes of paragraph (1.1)(a), a quantity of contributing oil; and

  • (d) respecting, for the purposes of paragraph (1.1)(b), a quantity of non-persistent oil.