Canada Marine Act

Marginal note:Definitions

• 2 (1) The definitions in this subsection apply in this Act.

  Agency

  Agency means the Canadian Transportation Agency continued by subsection 7(1) of the Canada Transportation Act. (Office)

  federal immovable

  federal immovable has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act; (immeuble fédéral)

  federal real property

  federal real property has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Federal Real Property and Federal Immovables Act; (bien réel fédéral)

  fees

  fees includes harbour dues, berthage and wharfage, as well as duties, tolls, rates and other charges, but does not include payments made under a lease or licence agreement. (droit)

  goods

  goods includes personal property and movables, other than ships. (marchandises)

  Minister

  Minister means the Minister of Transport. (ministre)

  owner

  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 real property or immovables to which this Act applies. (propriétaire)

  person

  person includes a partnership, an association and a body corporate. (personne)

  port authority

  port authority means a port authority incorporated or continued under this Act. (administration portuaire)

  port facility

  port facility means a wharf, pier, breakwater, terminal, warehouse or other building or work that is located in, on or adjacent to navigable waters that is used in connection with navigation or shipping, land incidental to its use and any land adjacent to navigable waters that is used in connection with navigation or shipping. (installation portuaire)

  public port

  public port means a port designated as a public port under section 65. (port public)

  public port facility

  public port facility means a port facility designated as a public port facility under section 65. (installations portuaires publiques)

  Seaway

  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 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 Erie and generally known as the St. Lawrence Seaway. (voie maritime)

  ship

  ship means 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. (navire)

• Marginal note:Same meaning

  (2) Unless a contrary intention appears, words and expressions used in this Act have the same meaning as in the Canada Business Corporations Act.