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Bill C-496

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C-496
First Session, Forty-first Parliament,
60-61-62 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF CANADA
BILL C-496
An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (Kicking Horse River and Clearwater River)

first reading, April 22, 2013

Ms. Duncan (Edmonton—Strathcona)

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SUMMARY
This enactment amends the Navigable Waters Protection Act in order to add the Kicking Horse River and the Clearwater River to the navigable waters listed in the schedule to that Act, as it will read immediately after the coming into force of section 331 of the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012.

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1st Session, 41st Parliament,
60-61-62 Elizabeth II, 2011-2012-2013
house of commons of canada
BILL C-496
An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act (Kicking Horse River and Clearwater River)
Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:
R.S., c. N-22
NAVIGABLE WATERS PROTECTION ACT
1. Part 2 of the schedule to the Navigable Waters Protection Act, as it reads immediately after the coming into force of section 331 of the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012, is amended by adding after item 10 in the columns shown the following:
Item: “10.1”
Column 1: “Kicking Horse River”
Column 2: “51°18′25″ N, 116°59′16″ W”
Column 3: “51°26′21″ N, 116°21′00″ W”
Column 4: “From Wapta Lake to the Columbia River”
2. Part 2 of the schedule to the Act is amended by adding after item 12 in the columns shown the following:
Item: “12.1”
Column 1: “Clearwater River”
Column 2: “56°44′47″ N, 111°23′29″ W”
Column 3: “57°38′50″ N, 109°15′19″ W”
Column 4: “From Patterson Lake to the Athabasca River”
COMING INTO FORCE
Coming into force
3. This Act comes into force on the later of the day section 331 of the Jobs and Growth Act, 2012 comes into force and the day on which this Act receives royal assent.
Published under authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons