Interpretation

Question 1

Act

Answer 1

Means the Canada shipping act 2001

Question 2

Air cushion vessel

Answer 2

means a vessel designed so that the whole or a significant part of its weight can be supported, whether at rest or in motion, by a continuously generated cushion of air dependent for its effectiveness on the proximity of the vessel to the surface over which it operates.

Question 3

Annex

Answer 3

means an annex to Schedule 1

Question 4

Approved signal

Answer 4

means a distress signal recognized internationally by organizations concerned with radiocommunications and maritime safety.

Question 5

Barge

Answer 5

means a non-self-propelled barge, scow, dredge, pile-driver, hopper, pontoon or houseboat

Question 6

Board

Answer 6

means the Marine Technical Review Board established by section 26 of the Act

Question 7

Canadian ODAS

Answer 7

means an ODAS which is owned by

(a) a person who is a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada; or

(b) the Government of Canada, the government of a province, a corporation resident in Canada or a Canadian university

Question 8

Canadian pleasure craft

Answer 8

means a pleasure craft that is

(a) licensed in Canada; or

(b) principally maintained and operated in Canada and not registered in or licensed or otherwise legally documented by another state

Question 9

Composite unit

Answer 9

means a pushing vessel and an associated pushed vessel that are rigidly connected and that are designed as a dedicated and integrated tug and barge combination

Question 10

Direction of traffic flow

Answer 10

means the direction for traffic on a route that is indicated by arrows on a reference chart

Question 11

Exploration or exploitation vessel

Answer 11

means a vessel capable of engaging in the drilling for, or the production, conservation or processing of, oil or gas

Question 12

Fishing zones

Answer 12

means the fishing zones described in section 16 of the Oceans Act and prescribed in regulations made under paragraph 25(b) of that Act

Question 13

Foreign ODAS

Answer 13

means an ODAS that is not a Canadian ODAS

Question 14

Give way vessel

Answer 14

means a vessel that is required by these Regulations to keep out of the way of another vessel

Question 15

Great Lakes basin

Answer 15

means Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron (including Georgian Bay), Michigan and Superior, their connecting and tributary waters and the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers and their tributaries as far east as the lower exit of the St. Lambert Lock

Question 16

IALA

Answer 16

means the International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities

Question 17

Inconspicuous, partly submerged vessel or object

Answer 17

means a raft or vessel or any other floating object that is low in the water and is generally difficult to see.

Question 18

Inshore traffic zone

Answer 18

means a routing measure that is a designated area between the landward boundary of a traffic separation scheme and the adjacent coast that is intended for local traffic

Question 19

Mile

Answer 19

Means the international nautical mile of 1852 m

Question 20

Minister

Answer 20

Means the minister of transport

Question 21

Notice to mariners

Answer 21

means the monthly and annual publication by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to provide marine information

Question 22

Notice to shipping

Answer 22

Means an urgent release by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to provide marine information

Question 23

ODAS

Answer 23

means an ocean data acquisition system that consists of any object on or in the water and is designed to collect, store or transmit samples or data relating to the marine environment or the atmosphere or to the uses thereof

Question 24

Organization

Answer 24

Means the international maritime organization

Question 25

Raft

Answer 25

Includes a boom

Question 26

Route

Answer 26

means an area within which there are, at any point, one or two directions of traffic flow and that is delineated on two sides by separation lines, separation zones, natural obstacles or dashed tinted lines except that the continuity of such lines or zones may be interrupted where the route merges with, diverges from or crosses another route

Question 27

Routing system

Answer 27

means any system of one or more routes or routing measures which systems may include traffic separation schemes, two-way routes, recommended tracks, areas to be avoided, inshore traffic zones, roundabouts, precautionary areas and deep water routes

Question 28

Rule

Answer 28

means a provision in Schedule 1 under a heading that consists of the word “Rule” followed by a number

Question 29

Seaplane

Answer 29

includes any aircraft designed to manoeuvre on the water

Question 30

Separation zone or separation line

Answer 30

means a zone or line separating routes in which vessels are proceeding in opposite or nearly opposite directions or separating a route from the adjacent inshore traffic zone

Question 31

Traffic lane

Answer 31

means a route within which there is one direction of traffic flow

Question 32

Traffic separation scheme

Answer 32

means a routing measure that provides for the separation of opposing streams of traffic by appropriate means and by the establishment of traffic lanes

Question 33

Trawling

Answer 33

means fishing by dragging through the water a dredge net or other fishing apparatus

Question 34

2

Answer 34

For greater certainty, except in section 2, the word “ship” shall, for the purposes of these Regulations, be read as “vessel

Question 35

3

Answer 35

For the purposes of these Regulations, every reference to “vessel” shall, except in subsection 3(1) and section 4, be read to include a reference to a seaplane when it is on or over the water

Question 36

Prohibition

Answer 36

No ship of any class shall navigate in any shipping safety control zone prescribed under subsection 11(1) of the Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act unless the ship complies with these Regulations.

Question 37

Application

Answer 37

3 (1) Subject to subsection (2), these Regulations apply in respect of

(a) every Canadian ODAS and Canadian vessel located in any waters, including every Canadian vessel that is an exploration or exploitation vessel engaged in exploration or exploitation activities pursuant to a licence issued by the Government of Canada

Question 38

Application b

Answer 38

(b) every pleasure craft, foreign ODAS and foreign vessel located in Canadian waters, including every foreign vessel that is an exploration or exploitation vessel engaged in exploration or exploitation activities pursuant to a licence issued by the Government of Canada; and

Question 39

C

Answer 39

(c) every seaplane on or over Canadian waters.

(2) As provided for Canadian vessels in subsection 7(3) of the Act, where the laws of a country other than Canada are applicable to a Canadian ODAS that is within the waters of that country and those laws are inconsistent with these Regulations, the laws of that country prevail to the extent of the inconsistency in respect of the Canadian ODAS.

(3) Where there is any inconsistency between a provision of the Rules and a provision of the Rules that falls under the heading “Canadian Modifications”, the latter provision prevails to the extent of the inconsistency.

(4) These Regulations do not apply in respect of a vessel or aircraft that belongs to the Canadian Forces or a foreign military force or in respect of any other vessel or aircraft that is under the command, control or direction of the Canadian Forces.

(5) Where there is any inconsistency between a provision of Rule 1 and a provision of this section, the provision of this section prevails to the extent of the inconsistency.