An Act to amend the Mackenzie Valley Resource Management Act and the Canada Petroleum Resources Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts (S.C. 2019, c. 19)

Coming into Force

Marginal note:Order in council

84 Sections 1, 13, 15, 16, 18 to 29, 31 and 34 come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

PART 21985, c. 36 (2nd Supp.)Canada Petroleum Resources Act

Amendments to the Act

• 85 (1) The portion of subsection 12(1) of the Canada Petroleum Resources Act before paragraph (a) is replaced by the following:

  Marginal note:Orders to prohibit activities in certain circumstances

  • 12 (1) The Governor in Council may, by order, prohibit any interest owner or any other person from commencing or continuing any work or activity authorized under the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act on the frontier lands, or any portion of them, if the Governor in Council considers that it is in the national interest to do so or that it is necessary in any of the following circumstances:

• (2) The portion of subsection 12(1) of the English version of the Act after paragraph (c) is repealed.

Coordinating Amendments

Marginal note:Bill C-55

• 86 (1) Subsections (2) to (6) apply if Bill C-55, introduced in the 1st session of the 42nd Parliament and entitled An Act to amend the Oceans Act and the Canada Petroleum Resources Act (in this section referred to as the “other Act”), receives royal assent.

• (2) If subsection 85(1) of this Act comes into force before subsection 19(1) of the other Act, then that subsection 19(1) is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed.

• (3) If subsection 85(1) of this Act comes into force on the same day as subsection 19(1) of the other Act, then that subsection 19(1) is deemed to have come into force before that subsection 85(1).

• (4) If subsection 85(2) of this Act comes into force before subsection 19(3) of the other Act, then that subsection 19(3) is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed.

• (5) If subsection 19(3) of the other Act comes into force before subsection 85(2) of this Act, then that subsection 85(2) is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed.

• (6) If subsection 85(2) of this Act comes into force on the same day as subsection 19(3) of the other Act, then that subsection 85(2) is deemed never to have come into force and is repealed.