C-555 2 41 62-63-64 Elizabeth II 2013-2014-2015

An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence)

An Act respecting the Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence)

Marine Mammal Regulations (seal fishery observation licence) 2015 6 18 28 2015 412090

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.

SOR/93-56

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

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:

(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.