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C-491
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60-61-62 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-491
An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (Bloodvein River and other rivers)

first reading, April 22, 2013

NOTE

2nd Session, 41st Parliament

This bill was introduced during the First Session of the 41st Parliament. Pursuant to the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, it is deemed to have been considered and approved at all stages completed at the time of prorogation of the First Session. The number of the bill remains unchanged.
Ms. Ashton

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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Navigable Waters Protection Act in order to add the Bloodvein River and other rivers to the navigable waters listed in the schedule to that Act, as it will read immediately after the coming into force of section 331 of the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012.

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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60-61-62 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013
house of commons of canada
BILL C-491
An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (Bloodvein River and other rivers)
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.S., c. N-22
NAVIGABLE WATERS PROTECTION ACT
1. Part 2 of the schedule to the Navigable Waters Protection Act, as it reads immediately after the coming into force of section 331 of the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012, is amended by adding after item 17 in the columns shown the following:
Item: “17.1”
Column 1: “Bloodvein River”
Column 2: “51°47′25″ N, 96°42′55″ W”
Column 3: “51°11′43″ N, 94°26′55″ W”
Column 4: “From Knox Lake (Ontario) to Lake Winnipeg”
2. Part 2 of the schedule to the Act is amended by adding after item 18 in the columns shown the following:
Item: “18.1”
Column 1: “Seal River”
Column 2: “59°03′43″ N, 94°47′00″ W”
Column 3: “58°49′50″ N, 97°50′02″ W”
Column 4: “From Shethanei Lake to Hudson Bay”
3. Part 2 of the schedule to the Act is amended by adding after item 19 in the columns shown the following:
Item: “19.1”
Column 1: “Hayes River”
Column 2: “57°02′60″ N, 92°33′36″ W”
Column 3: “54°16′02″ N, 96°55′50″ W”
Column 4: “From Molson Lake to Hudson Bay”
Item: “19.2”
Column 1: “Churchill River”
Column 2: “58°47′45″ N, 94°12′15″ W”
Column 3: “56°06′22″ N, 108°14′46″ W”
Column 4: “From Churchill Lake (Saskatchewan) to Hudson Bay”
COMING INTO FORCE
Coming into force
4. This Act comes into force on the later of the day section 331 of the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012 comes into force and the day on which this Act receives royal assent.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons