Bill S-4

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS TO THE CANADA TRANSPORTATION ACT

39. Subsection 157.1(1) of the Canada Transportation Act is replaced by the following:

157.1 (1) The Minister may enter into an agreement with a provincial minister responsible for transportation matters providing for the administration, in relation to persons who operate railways within the legislative authority of the province, of any law respecting

(a) accident investigations and railway crossings; or

(b) railway noise and vibration, or the regulation of the rates and conditions of service of railway companies, to the extent that those matters are governed by this Act.

40. Section 158 of the Act is replaced by the following:

158. The Minister may enter into an agreement with a provincial authority to authorize the provincial authority to regulate the construction and operation of a railway as well as the rates and conditions of service in the same manner and to the same extent as it may regulate a railway within its jurisdiction.

TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

41. An agreement entered into or a designation made under section 157.1 of the Canada Transportation Act in respect of any matter referred to in section 6.1 of the Railway Safety Act, as enacted by section 6, continues in force in accordance with its terms until it is replaced by an agreement entered into under that section 6.1.

42. An agreement entered into under section 158 of the Canada Transportation Act in respect of any matter referred to in section 6.2 of the Railway Safety Act, as enacted by section 6, continues in force in accordance with its terms until it is replaced by an agreement entered into under that section 6.2.

43. For the period ending two years after the day on which section 10 comes into force, section 17.1 of the Railway Safety Act, as enacted by section 10, does not apply to a company that was operating or maintaining a railway on that day or that was operating railway equipment on a railway on that day.

44. For the period ending two years after the day on which section 17.2 of the Railway Safety Act, as enacted by subsection 11(2), comes into force, the requirement to comply with a railway operating certificate imposed by that section 17.2 does not apply to a company that has no railway operating certificate if that company was operating or maintaining a railway on that day or was operating railway equipment on a railway on that day.

COMING INTO FORCE

45. (1) The provisions of this Act, other than subsections 7(2) and 14(2) to (5), come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.

(2) Subsections 7(2) and 14(2) to (5) come into force on the day on which the first regulations made under section 20.2 of the Railway Safety Act, as enacted by subsection 14(1), come into force.