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Bill C-85

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SUMMARY

This enactment relates to the implementation of Canada's obligations under the Agreement concerning Cooperation on the Civil International Space Station. The parties to the Agreement undertake to establish a framework for mutual international cooperation in the long term in relation to the detailed design, development, operation and utilization of a permanently inhabited civil international space station for peaceful purposes. The Agreement provides for mechanisms and arrangements to ensure the fulfilment of these objectives.

EXPLANATORY NOTES

Criminal Code

Clause 11: New.

Government Employees Compensation Act

Clause 12: Subsection 9(3) reads as follows:

(3) If the employee or the dependants referred to in subsection (1) elect to claim compensation under this Act, Her Majesty shall be subrogated to the rights of the employee or dependants and may maintain an action in the name of the employee or dependants or of Her Majesty against the person against whom the action lies and any sum recovered shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund.