Pipeline Safety Act

An Act to amend the National Energy Board Act and the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act

This bill is from the 41st Parliament, 2nd session, which ended in August 2015.

Sponsor

Greg Rickford  Conservative

Status

This bill has received Royal Assent and is now law.

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.

This enactment amends the National Energy Board Act and the Canada Oil and Gas Operations Act in order to strengthen the safety and security of pipelines regulated by those Acts.
More specifically, the enactment, among other things,
(a) reinforces the “polluter pays” principle;
(b) confirms that the liability of companies that operate pipelines is unlimited if an unintended or uncontrolled releaseread more

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other C-46s:

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C-46 (2012) Law Pension Reform Act
C-46 (2010) Canada-Panama Free Trade Act

Votes

March 9, 2015 Passed That the Bill be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources.

Pipeline Safety ActGovernment Orders

May 6th, 2015 / 5:25 p.m.

Some hon. members

Agreed.

As spoken

Pipeline Safety ActGovernment Orders

May 6th, 2015 / 5:25 p.m.

The Acting Speaker Bruce Stanton

(Motion agreed to, bill read the third time and passed)