45. The Official Languages Act applies to a port authority as if it were a federal institution within the meaning of that Act.
Liquidation and Dissolution
46. (1) The Governor in Council may, by issuing a certificate of intent to dissolve, require a port authority to liquidate its assets in accordance with the certificate or the regulations made under subsection 23(2) and may by a subsequent certificate of dissolution dissolve the port authority, and the letters patent are deemed to be revoked. The net proceeds of liquidation are to be paid on dissolution to Her Majesty in right of Canada.
(2) The Governor in Council may, by issuing a certificate of dissolution, dissolve a port authority without requiring the liquidation of its assets, in which case the obligations and assets of the port authority revert on dissolution to Her Majesty in right of Canada under the administration of the Minister.
(3) A certificate of dissolution issued under this section becomes effective thirty days after the date it is published in the Canada Gazette.
Port Traffic Control
47. (1) Subject to any regulations made under section 52, a port authority may, for the purpose of promoting safe and efficient navigation or environmental protection in the waters of the port, with respect to ships or classes of ships,
(a) establish traffic control zones within the port; and
(b) with respect to a traffic control zone,
(i) monitor ships about to enter the zone or within the zone,
(ii) establish the practices and procedures to be followed by ships about to enter the zone or within the zone, and
(iii) require ships about to enter the zone or within the zone to have the capacity to use specified radio frequencies.
(2) Subject to any regulations made under section 52, a port authority may
(a) require information to be given, for the purpose of obtaining a traffic clearance, by ships about to enter the port or within the port;
(b) impose the conditions under which a traffic clearance is to be granted; and
(c) require information to be given by ships after they have obtained a traffic clearance.
48. (1) A notice of each measure proposed in respect of section 47 shall be published in a major newspaper published or distributed in the place where the port is situated at least ninety days before the proposed effective date of the measure, and a reasonable opportunity within those ninety days shall be given to ship owners, masters, persons in charge of ships and other interested persons to make representations to the port authority with respect to it.
(2) The notice shall include information as to where a copy of the proposed measure, including any related documents necessary to understand it, may be obtained and an invitation to any interested person to make representations to the port authority with respect to it within those ninety days.
(3) After the port authority considers any representations made by interested persons with respect to a proposed measure, it may adopt the measure.
(4) The port authority shall have notice of each measure that it adopts, together with notice of the place at which a copy of the measure may be obtained, published in a major newspaper published or distributed in the place where the port is situated.
(5) Subsection (1) does not apply to a measure that
