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Bill C-500

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C-500
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60-61-62 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-500
An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (ocean watersheds)

first reading, April 25, 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.
Mr. Cleary

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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Navigable Waters Protection Act in order to add the rivers and lakes within certain Labrador watersheds 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-500
An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (ocean watersheds)
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. 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 the following after Part 2:
PART 3
OCEAN WATERSHEDS
1. LABRADOR WATERSHEDS
All the navigable waters situated in Labrador and draining into the Labrador Sea in the Atlantic Ocean drainage basin that are included in the following watersheds:
(a) the Labrador — Northern Watershed;
(b) the Saglek and Hebron Watershed;
(c) the Okak Bay Watershed;
(d) the Tikkoatokuk Bay Watershed;
(e) the Kogaluk and Notakwanon Watershed;
(f) the Adlatok Watershed;
(g) the Kanairiktok Watershed;
(h) the Big Watershed;
(i) the Hamilton Inlet Watershed;
(j) the Eagle and Paradise Watershed;
(k) the Alexis Watershed; and
(l) the Strait of Belle Isle — North Shore Watershed.
COMING INTO FORCE
Coming into force
2. 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