Northern Pipeline Act

Marginal note:Definitions

• 2 (1) In this Act,

  Administrator

  Administrator means the Administrator of the Agency appointed or designated pursuant to subsection 6(2); (Directeur)

  Agency

  Agency means the Northern Pipeline Agency established by subsection 5(1); (Administration)

  Agreement

  Agreement means the Agreement between Canada and the United States dated September 20, 1977, set out in Schedule I, and includes any exchange of notes between Canada and the United States amending Annex III of the Agreement to give effect to a report of the National Energy Board, dated February 17, 1978, in which the National Energy Board indicated it would include in its decision approving, under this Act, pipeline specifications, a requirement for a 56 inch diameter pipe with a maximum allowable operating pressure of 1,080 psi for that portion of the pipeline between Whitehorse, Yukon and Caroline, Alberta; (Accord)

  Board

  Board[Repealed, 2019, c. 28, s. 116]

  Commissioner

  Commissioner means the Commissioner of the Agency appointed pursuant to subsection 6(1); (Directeur général)

  company

  company means a company to which a certificate of public convenience and necessity is declared to be issued by subsection 21(1) in respect of the pipeline; (compagnie)

  designated officer

  designated officer means the commissioner of the Regulator who is designated under subsection 6(2) as Administrator or under subsection 6(4) as a deputy to the Administrator; (fonctionnaire désigné)

  Hearing

  Hearing means the hearings before the National Energy Board in respect of applications for certificates of public convenience and necessity for the construction and operation of certain natural gas pipelines that resulted in a publication of the National Energy Board under date of June, 1977 in three volumes entitled “Reasons for Decision, Northern Pipelines”; (Audience)

  Minister

  Minister means such member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada as is designated by the Governor in Council as the Minister for the purposes of this Act; (ministre)

  pipeline

  pipeline means the pipeline for the transmission of natural gas from Alaska across Canada along the route set out in Annex I to the Agreement and includes all branches, extensions, tanks, reservoirs, storage facilities, pumps, racks, compressors, loading facilities, interstation systems of communication by telephone, telegraph or radio, and real and personal property and works connected therewith; (pipe-line)

  Regulator

  Regulator means the Canadian Energy Regulator established under the Canadian Energy Regulator Act. (Régie)

• Marginal note:References

  (2) For the purposes of this Act, a reference in this Act or in any schedule to this Act to the Foreign Investment Review Act, chapter 46 of the Statutes of Canada, 1973-74, or any provision of that Act shall be construed as a reference to that Act or provision as it read immediately before the coming into force of section 46 of the Investment Canada Act, chapter 20 of the Statutes of Canada, 1985.

• Marginal note:Deeming

  (3) For the purposes of the Agreement set out in Schedule I to this Act, the Regulator is deemed to be the National Energy Board.