Regulations Amending the Assessable Activities, Exceptions and Executive Committee Projects Regulations (Miscellaneous Program): SOR/2021-27
Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 155, Number 6
Registration
SOR/2021-27 February 26, 2021
YUKON ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT ACT
P.C. 2021-95 February 26, 2021
His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of Canada in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Northern Affairs, pursuant to subsection 47(1) of the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Act footnote a, makes the annexed Regulations Amending the Assessable Activities, Exceptions and Executive Committee Projects Regulations (Miscellaneous Program).
Regulations Amending the Assessable Activities, Exceptions and Executive Committee Projects Regulations (Miscellaneous Program)
Amendment
1 The portion of items 5 to 7 of Part 9 of Schedule 1 to the Assessable Activities, Exceptions and Executive Committee Projects Regulations footnote 1 in column 1 is replaced by the following:
| Item | Column 1 Activity |
|---|---|
5 |
Construction, installation, operation, modification, decommissioning or abandonment of a work as defined in section 2 of the Canadian Navigable Waters Act — other than a bridge — that is in, on, over, under or through navigable water |
6 |
Repairing, securing, moving, removing, dismantling, destroying or doing any other thing with respect to an obstruction, potential obstruction, wreck, vessel, part of a vessel or other thing under section 15, 15.1, 15.2 or 16 of the Canadian Navigable Waters Act |
7 |
Repairing, securing, moving, removing, dismantling, destroying, disposing of or taking possession of a vessel, wreck, dilapidated vessel, their contents, or other thing under section 36, 37 or 38 of the Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels Act |
Coming into Force
2 These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.
REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS STATEMENT
(This statement is not part of the Regulations.)
Issues
In December 2012, the Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations raised a number of issues of an administrative nature regarding the Assessable Activities, Exceptions and Executive Committee Projects Regulations (the Regulations). The majority of these issues were resolved by the Regulations Amending the Assessable Activities, Exceptions and Executive Committee Projects Regulations (Miscellaneous Program), which were made on February 1, 2019. However, three suggested amendments were not included in the amending Regulations, as they were dependent on the passage of legislation in 2019. The Standing Joint Committee for the Scrutiny of Regulations has recently written to the Department of Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs requesting that these amendments be made as soon as possible.
Objective
To provide clarity and accuracy to the Regulations.
Description and rationale
The amendments to the Regulations provide clarification and precision by replacing outdated references to the Navigable Waters Protection Act with references to the Canadian Navigable Waters Act and the Wrecked, Abandoned or Hazardous Vessels Act, which received royal assent on June 21, 2019, and February 28, 2019, respectively.
One-for-one rule and small business lens
The one-for-one rule does not apply to these amendments, as there is no change in administrative costs or burden to business.
The small business lens does not apply to these amendments, as there are no costs to small business.
Contact
Gilles Binda
Director
Resource Policy and Programs
Natural Resources and Environment Branch
Northern Affairs Organization
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
15 Eddy Street, 10th Floor
Gatineau, Quebec
K1A 0H4