Proclamation Exempting the Waters of Sandy Pond from the Operation of Section 22 of the Navigable Waters Protection Act (SOR/2009-202)

MICHAËLLE JEAN

[L.S.]

Canada

ELIZABETH THE SECOND, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories QUEEN, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.

TO ALL TO WHOM these Presents shall come or whom the same may in any way concern,

Greeting:

A PROCLAMATION

Whereas section 23 of the Navigable Waters Protection Act provides that when it is shown to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council that the public interest would not be injuriously affected thereby, the Governor in Council may, by proclamation, declare any rivers, streams or waters in respect of which section 22 of that Act applies, or any parts thereof, exempt in whole or in part from the operation of that section;

Whereas the Governor in Council is satisfied that the public interest would not be injuriously affected by exempting Sandy Pond, located in Newfoundland and Labrador, from the operation of section 22 of the Navigable Waters Protection Act;

And whereas, by Order in Council P.C. 2009-850 of May 28, 2009, the Governor in Council directed that a proclamation do issue declaring that Sandy Pond, located in Newfoundland and Labrador, is exempt from the operation of section 22 of the Navigable Waters Protection Act;

Now know you that We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council for Canada, do by this Our Proclamation declare that Sandy Pond, located in Newfoundland and Labrador, is exempt from the operation of section 22 of the Navigable Waters Protection Act.

OF ALL WHICH Our Loving Subjects and all others whom these Presents may concern are hereby required to take notice and to govern themselves accordingly.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have caused this Our Proclamation to be published and the Great Seal of Canada to be hereunto affixed. WITNESS: Our Right Trusty and Wellbeloved Michaëlle Jean, Chancellor and Principal Companion of Our Order of Canada, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Military Merit, Chancellor and Commander of Our Order of Merit of the Police Forces, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada.

AT OUR GOVERNMENT HOUSE, in Our City of Ottawa, this twenty-third day of June in the year of Our Lord two thousand and nine and in the fifty-eighth year of Our Reign.

By command,

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN