Marginal note:Assistance to pollution prevention officers

16. The owner or person in charge of any area, place or premises entered pursuant to subsection 15(1) or (2), the master of any ship boarded pursuant to paragraph 15(4)(a) and every person found in the area, place or premises or on board the ship shall give a pollution prevention officer all reasonable assistance to enable the officer to carry out his duties and functions under this Act and shall furnish the officer with any information he may reasonably require.

Marginal note:Obstruction and false statements

17. No person shall obstruct or hinder, or knowingly make a false or misleading statement either orally or in writing to, a pollution prevention officer while the officer is engaged in carrying out his duties or functions under this Act.

Marginal note:Contravention of subsection 4(1)

• 18. (1) Any person who contravenes subsection 4(1) and any ship that contravenes that subsection is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding, in the case of a person, five thousand dollars and, in the case of a ship, one hundred thousand dollars.

• Marginal note:Continuing offences

  (2) Where an offence referred to in subsection (1) is committed by a person on more than one day or continued by him for more than one day, it shall be deemed to be a separate offence for each day on which it is committed or continued.

Marginal note:Additional offences by persons

• 19. (1) Any person who

  • (a) fails to make a report to a pollution prevention officer as and when required under subsection 5(1),

  • (b) fails to provide the Governor in Council with evidence of financial responsibility as and when required under subsection 8(1),

  • (c) fails to provide the Governor in Council with any plans and specifications required of the person under subsection 10(1), or

  • (d) constructs, alters or extends any work described in subsection 10(2)

    • (i) otherwise than in accordance with any plans and specifications provided to the Governor in Council in accordance with a requirement made under subsection 10(1), or with any such plans and specifications as required to be modified by any order made under subsection 10(3), or

    • (ii) contrary to any order made under subsection 10(3) prohibiting the carrying out of the construction, alteration or extension,

  is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.

• Marginal note:Additional offences by ships

  (2) Any ship

  • (a) that navigates within a shipping safety control zone when the ship does not comply with standards prescribed by any regulations made under section 12 that are applicable to it within that shipping safety control zone,

  • (b) that navigates within a shipping safety control zone in contravention of a regulation made under paragraph 12(1)(b) or (c),

  • (c) that, having taken on board a pilot in order to comply with a regulation made under paragraph 12(1)(b), fails to comply with any reasonable directions given to it by the pilot in carrying out his duties,

  • (d) that fails to comply with any order of a pollution prevention officer under paragraph 15(4)(b) or (c) that is applicable to it,

  • (e) the master of which fails to make a report to a pollution prevention officer as and when required under subsection 5(2), or

  • (f) the master of which, or any person on board which, contravenes section 17,

  is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.

• Marginal note:Contravention of section 17

  (3) Any person, other than the master of a ship or any person on board a ship, who contravenes section 17 is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction.