Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act

Marginal note:Definitions

2 In this Act,

analyst

analyste

analyst means a person designated as an analyst under the Canada Water Act, the Northwest Territories Waters Act  or the Nunavut Waters and Nunavut Surface Rights Tribunal Act; (analyste)

arctic waters

eaux arctiques

arctic waters means the waters adjacent to the mainland and islands of the Canadian arctic within the area enclosed by the sixtieth parallel of north latitude, the one hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude and a line measured seaward from the nearest Canadian land a distance of one hundred nautical miles, except that in the area between the islands of the Canadian arctic and Greenland, where the line of equidistance between the islands of the Canadian arctic and Greenland is less than one hundred nautical miles from the nearest Canadian land, that line shall be substituted for the line measured seaward one hundred nautical miles from the nearest Canadian land; (eaux arctiques)

ice-breaker

brise-glace

ice-breaker means a ship specially designed and constructed for the purpose of assisting the passage of other ships through ice; (brise-glace)

owner

propriétaire

owner, in relation to a ship, includes any person having for the time being, either by law or by contract, the same rights as the owner of the ship with respect to the possession and use thereof; (propriétaire)

pilot

pilote

pilot means a person licensed as a pilot pursuant to the Pilotage Act; (pilote)

pollution prevention officer

fonctionnaire compétent

pollution prevention officer means a person designated as a pollution prevention officer pursuant to section 14; (fonctionnaire compétent)

ship

navire

ship includes any description of vessel or boat used or designed for use in navigation without regard to method or lack of propulsion; (navire)

shipping safety control zone

zone de contrôle de la sécurité de la navigation

shipping safety control zone means an area of the arctic waters prescribed as a shipping safety control zone by an order made under section 11; (zone de contrôle de la sécurité de la navigation)

waste

déchet

waste means

• (a) any substance that, if added to any water, would degrade or alter or form part of a process of degradation or alteration of the quality of that water to an extent that is detrimental to their use by man or by any animal, fish or plant that is useful to man, and

• (b) any water that contains a substance in such a quantity or concentration, or that has been so treated, processed or changed, by heat or other means, from a natural state that it would, if added to any other water, degrade or alter or form part of a process of degradation or alteration of the quality of that water to the extent described in paragraph (a),

and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes anything that, for the purposes of the Canada Water Act, is deemed to be waste. (déchet)