OIC Number: 2009 - 518

Date of Order: Dec 15, 2009

Statute: Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation (Nova Scotia) Act

OIC Text: The Governor in Council on the report and recommendation of the Minister of Energy dated December 1 , 2009, and pursuant to

Section 146 of

Chapter 3 of the Acts of 1987, the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Resources Accord Implementation (Nova Scotia) Act, is pleased, effective on and after December 31, 2009, to: (

a) repeal the Nova Scotia Offshore Area Petroleum Drilling Regulations, N.S. Reg. 137/92, made by the Governor in Council by Order in Council 92-679 dated July 7, 1992; (

b) repeal the Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Production and Conservation Regulations, N.S. Reg. 144/96, made by the Governor in Council by Order in Council 96-654 dated August 28, 1996; (

c) make regulations respecting petroleum drilling and production in the Nova Scotia offshore area in the form set forth in

Schedule "A" attached to and forming part of the Report and Recommendation; (

d) amend the Nova Scotia Offshore Area Certificate of Fitness Regulations, N.S. Reg. 4/96, made by the Governor in Council by Order in Council 96-20 dated January 9, 1996, in the manner set forth in

Schedule "B" attached to and forming part of the Report and Recommendation; and (

e) amend the Nova Scotia Offshore Area Petroleum Installations Regulations, N.S. Reg. 166/97, made by the Governor in Council by Order in Council 97-756 dated December 9, 1997, in the manner set forth in

Schedule "C" attached to and forming part of the Report and Recommendation.

Department(s): Energy (June 2002 - July 2021)