Bill C-42

59-60 ELIZABETH II

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CHAPTER 9

An Act to amend the Aeronautics Act

[Assented to 23rd March, 2011]

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

SHORT TITLE

1. This Act may be cited as the Strengthening Aviation Security Act.

AERONAUTICS ACT

2. (1) Subsection 4.83(1) of the Aeronautics Act is replaced by the following:

4.83 (1) Despite section 5 of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, to the extent that that section relates to obligations set out in Schedule 1 to that Act relating to the disclosure of information, and despite subsection 7(3) of that Act, an operator of an aircraft departing from Canada that is due to land in a foreign state or fly over the United States and land outside Canada or of a Canadian aircraft departing from any place outside Canada that is due to land in a foreign state or fly over the United States may, in accordance with the regulations, provide to a competent authority in that foreign state any information that is in the operator’s control relating to persons on board or expected to be on board the aircraft and that is required by the laws of the foreign state.

(1.1) The operator of an aircraft that is due to fly over, but not land in, the United States must notify all persons who are on board or expected to be on board the aircraft that information relating to them may be provided to a competent authority in the United States in accordance with subsection (1).

(2) Section 4.83 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (3):

(4) The Committee of the House of Commons responsible for transport matters must,

(a) within two years after the day on which this subsection comes into force and every five years thereafter, commence a comprehensive review of the provisions and operation of this section, and complete the review within one year; and

(b) within three months after the day on which the review is completed, submit a report to the House of Commons setting out its findings.