Bill C-115

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	(b) in or above the continental shelf of Canada
	is conclusive proof of the truth of the statement without proof of the signature or official character of the person appearing to have issued the certificate.
Certificate cannot be compelled	(2) A certificate referred to in subsection (1) is admissible in evidence in proceedings referred to in that subsection, but its production cannot be compelled.
Regulations - Minister of Foreign Affairs	4.8 The Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, make regulations prescribing geographical coordinates of points from which
	(a) in respect of a portion of the exclusive economic zone of Canada or the continental shelf of Canada prescribed in the regulations, an outer limit line may be determined, where, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, a portion of the exclusive economic zone of Canada or the continental shelf of Canada determined in accordance with paragraph 4.1(1)(a) or 4.4(1)(a) or (b) would conflict with the territorial sea of another state or other area of the sea in which another state has sovereign rights or would be unreasonably close to the coast of another state or is otherwise inappropriate; and
	(b) the outer limit of the exclusive economic zone of Canada or the outer edge of the continental margin or other outer limit of the continental shelf of Canada may be determined.
Bill C-98	*(3) If Bill C-98, introduced during the first session of the thirty-fifth Parliament and entitled An Act respecting the oceans of Canada, is assented to after this Act is assented to, then,*
	(a) on the day on which section 55 of that Act comes into force, sections 4.1 to 4.8 of this Act, as enacted by subsection (2), are repealed; and
	(b) on the day on which section 88 of that Act comes into force, the definitions ``Canadian waters'', ``continental shelf'' and ``exclusive economic zone'' in section 2 of this Act, as enacted by subsection (2), are repealed.
	COMING INTO FORCE
Coming into force	213. This Act or any of its provisions comes into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.