Bill C-555: An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence)

Second Session, Forty-first Parliament, 62-63-64 Elizabeth II, 2013-2014-2015 STATUTES OF CANADA 2015CHAPTER 28 An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence) ASSENTED TO 18th JUNE, 2015 BILL C-555 SUMMARY This enactment requires the Governor in Council to amend the Marine Mammal Regulations to increase the distance that a person must maintain from another person who is fishing for seals, except under the authority of a seal fishery observation licence. Available on the Parliament of Canada Web Site at the following address:http://www.parl.gc.ca 62-63-64 ELIZABETH II —————— CHAPTER 28 An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence) [Assented to 18th June, 2015] SOR/93-56 Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows: 1. Within 60 days after this Act comes into force, the Governor in Council is to make the following amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations: (a) paragraph 32(2)(d) is replaced by the following: (d) whether the applicant has a stated aim of disrupting the seal fishery or has been convicted, in the five years preceding the application for the licence, of tagging, marking or moving a live seal, of contravening subsection 33(1) or of violating a condition of a seal fishery observation licence; and (b) subsection 33(1) is replaced by the following: 33. (1) Subject to subsection (2), no person shall, except under the authority of a seal fishery observation licence issued by the Minister, approach within one nautical mile of a person who is fishing for seals. (c) paragraph 33(2)(e) is replaced by the following: (e) to a person who resides on land within one nautical mile of a person who is fishing for seals. Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons