An Act for making the system of Canadian ports competitive, efficient and commercially oriented, providing for the establishing of port authorities and the divesting of certain harbours and ports, for the commercialization of the St. Lawrence Seaway and ferry services and other matters related to maritime trade and transport and amending the Pilotage Act and amending and repealing other Acts as a consequence
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
SHORT TITLE
1. This Act may be cited as the Canada Marine Act.
INTERPRETATTON
2. (1) The definitions in this subsection apply in this Act.
"Agency" means the Canadian Transportation Agency continued by subsection 7(1) of the Canada Transportation Act.
"federal real property" has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Federal Real Property Act.
"fees" includes duties, tolls, rates and other charges.
"goods" includes all personal property other than ships.
"Minister" means the Minister of Transport.
"owner" includes
(a) in the case of a ship, the agent, charterer by demise or master of the ship: and
(b) in the case of goods, the agent, sender, consignee or bailee of the goods, as well as the carrier of the goods to, on, over or from any property under the administration or jurisdiction of a port authority or the Minister.
"person" includes a partnership, an association and a body corporate.
"port authority" means a port authority established under section 6.
"port facility" means a warehouse or other building or a wharf, pier, breakwater or other work located in, on or adjacent to navigable waters used in connection with navigation or shipping and includes any land incidental to their use.
"public port" means a port designated as a public port under section 54.
"public port facility" means a port facility designated as a public port facility under section 54.
"Seaway" means the deep waterway between the port of Montreal and the Great Lakes that is constructed and maintained pursuant to the Agreement between Canada and the 25 United States providing for the development of navigation and power in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin, dated March 19, 1941, including the locks, canals and facilities between the port of Montreal and Lake 30 Erie and generally known as the St. Lawrence Seaway.
"ship" includes every description of vessel, boat or craft designed. used or capable of being used solely or partly for marine navigation, whether self-propelled or not and without regard to the method of propulsion, and includes a sea-plane and a raft or boom of logs or lumber.
