An Act to amend the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 and to provide for the development of a national strategy (abandonment of vessels)

This bill is from the 42nd Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2019.

Sponsor

Sheila Malcolmson  NDP

Introduced as a private member’s bill. (These don’t often become law.)

Status

Dead, as of Dec. 6, 2017
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Canada Shipping Act, 2001 to strengthen the requirements relating to wreck by ensuring that regulations are made to establish measures to be taken for its removal, disposal or destruction. It also designates the Canadian Coast Guard as a receiver of wreck for the purposes of Part 7 of the Act and requires receivers of wreck to take the necessary steps to identify and locate the owner of the wreck.
Finally, it provides for the development and implementation of a national strategy to address the abandonment of vessels.

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-352s:

C-352 (2023) Lowering Prices for Canadians Act
C-352 (2013) National Office for Fire and Emergency Response Statistics Act
C-352 (2011) National Office for Fire and Emergency Response Statistics Act
C-352 (2010) National Security Committee of Parliamentarians Act