Bill S-3

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	TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS
Deeming	23. If an extra-provincial motor carrier undertaking is, on the day immediately before the coming into force of this section, authorized to operate within a province, the undertaking is deemed to hold a safety fitness certificate issued under section 8.
Pending applications	24. (1) An application for a licence made under section 8, as that section read before the coming into force of this section, and pending on the day immediately before that coming into force, is deemed to have been made under section 8 of this Act.
Pending applications - bus transport	(2) Every application for a licence made under section 5 with respect to bus transport that is pending on the day immediately before the coming into force of this section, is deemed to be an application made under sections 5 and 8.
	ANNUAL REPORT
Report to Parliament	25. (1) The Minister shall prepare an annual report and cause a copy of it to be laid before each House of Parliament on any of the first fifteen days on which that House is sitting after the Minister completes it.
Content of annual report	(2) The annual report of the Minister shall contain the following in respect of the year:
	(a) the available statistical information respecting trends of highway accidents in Canada involving motor vehicles operated by extra-provincial bus undertakings and extra-provincial truck undertakings reported separatly for bus undertakings and truck undertakings; and
	(b) a progress report on the implementation of rules and standards respecting the safe operation of extra-provincial bus undertakings and of extra-provincial truck undertakings.
	REVIEW OF PROVISIONS
Review	26. (1) The Minister shall, after the expiry of four years after the coming into force of this section and before the expiry of five years after that coming into force, undertake and complete a comprehensive review of the operation and effect of the amendments to this Act contained in An Act to amend the Motor Vehicle Transport Act, 1987 and to make consequential amendments to other Acts and shall, without delay, prepare a report with respect to that review.
Minister to make report available	(2) The Minister shall make the report available to the Council of Ministers Responsible for Transportation and Highway Safety at the next meeting of the council after its completion.
Tabling of report	(3) The Minister shall cause a copy of the report to be laid before each House of Parliament during the first thirty sitting days of that House following its completion.
	CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS
R.S., c. E-9	Energy Supplies Emergency Act
1996, c. 10, s. 218	*10. Section 38 of the Energy Supplies Emergency Act* is replaced by the following:**
Motor transport	38. In respect of an extra-provincial truck undertaking within the meaning of the Motor Vehicle Transport Act, the Board may authorize the operation of the undertaking for the transport of a controlled product notwithstanding any provision of that Act or the Canada Transportation Act or any regulations made pursuant to either of those Acts.
R.S., c. E-15	Excise Tax Act
	11. Subparagraph (b)(iii) of the definition ``specified supply'' in section 364 of the Excise Tax Act, as enacted by section 242 of An Act to amend the Excise Tax Act, the Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, the Income Tax Act, the Debt Servicing and Reduction Account Act and related Acts, chapter 10 of the Statutes of Canada, 1997, is replaced by the following:
	(iii) made by a person who operates an extra-provincial bus undertaking (within the meaning assigned by subsection 2(1) of the Motor Vehicle Transport Act);
R.S., c. G-10	Canada Grain Act
R.S., c. 29 (3rd Supp.), s. 25	*12. The definition ``public carrier'' in section 2 of the Canada Grain Act* is replaced by the following:**
``public carrier'' « transporteur public »	``public carrier'' means any railway company, any operator of an extra-provincial truck undertaking within the meaning of the Motor Vehicle Transport Act and any owner or operator of a ship;
	COMING INTO FORCE
Coming into force	13. The provisions of this Act, and the provisions of any Act that are enacted by this Act, come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.