Arctic Shipping Safety and Pollution Prevention Regulations (SOR/2017-286)

Marginal note:Incorporated documents – as amended from time to time

• 2 (1) Except as otherwise provided, any reference in these Regulations to a document is a reference to the document as amended from time to time.

• Marginal note:Recommendations

  (2) For the purpose of interpreting a document incorporated by reference into these Regulations, “should” is to be read as “must” and recommendations are mandatory.

• Marginal note:Authorized representative — pleasure craft

  (3) Any reference in these Regulations to the authorized representative of a vessel, means, in the case of a pleasure craft, the operator of the craft.

• Marginal note:Certified vessel

  (4) Any reference in these Regulations to a certified vessel is to be read as a reference to

  • (a) if the vessel is a Canadian vessel, a vessel certified under the Canada Shipping Act, 2001; and

  • (b) if the vessel is a foreign vessel, a vessel certified by or on behalf of the government of the state whose flag the vessel is entitled to fly.