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Transport Canada

CANADA SHIPPING ACT
PART VII

Table of Contents

PART VII


PART VII

LIGHTHOUSES, BUOYS AND BEACONS,
AND SABLE ISLAND

Lighthouses, etc., to vest in Her Majesty

517. All lighthouses, lightships, floating and other lights, lanterns and other signals, buoys and beacons, radio aids to marine navigation, anchors and landmarks acquired, constructed, repaired, maintained, improved, erected, placed or laid down for the greater security and facility of navigation at the expense of any province before it became a part of Canada, or at the expense of the Government of Canada, together with all buildings and other works belonging thereto and in connection therewith, are vested in Her Majesty, and are under the direct control and management of the Minister.

Appointment of keepers, etc.

518. The Minister may appoint in the manner authorized by law any keepers, superintendents and other officers that are necessary for the purposes of this Part.

Regulations

519. The Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Transport, may make regulations

(a) respecting aids to navigation in Canadian waters; and

(b) prescribing the fines for any contravention of any regulation made under this section, and those fines may not be more than $200.

Regulations

519.1 The Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister, may make regulations

(a) respecting the government of Sable Island and of St. Paul Island, the duties of the resident keepers on those islands, the administration of relief to shipwrecked persons and their removal, the preservation and removal of shipwrecked property, the prevention of persons not authorized by the Minister from taking up residence on those islands and the general management of those islands; and

(b) prescribing the fines for any contravention of any regulation made under this section, and those fines may not be more than $200.

Sable or St. Paul Island

520. The Minister may give to any person a licence that authorizes that person to reside on Sable Island or St. Paul Island, which licence shall describe the person in whose favour it is so issued.

People found on Sable Island or St. Paul Island

521. The superintendent, a resident keeper, any officer of the Department or any other person acting under the authority of the Minister may apprehend any person residing on Sable Island or St. Paul Island, having voluntarily gone there for any purpose whatever without a licence from the Minister, and bring the person and all property found in his possession to Halifax, and any provincial court judge or two justices of the peace, on proof that the person was so found, may commit him to the common jail for not more than six months, and further thereafter, until he gives security for his future good behaviour.

Disposal of their property

522. Whatever property is found on Sable Island or St. Paul Island belonging to an offender referred to in section 521 may be sold by order of the provincial court judge or justices, and the proceeds thereof shall be applied to pay the expense of the removal of the offender and goods, and the residue, if any, returned to the owner, but any such property not sold by order of the magistrate or justices shall be deemed to be wreck and shall be dealt with as provided by Part VI.

Vessels or goods stranded on Islands

523. When vessels or goods are stranded on Sable Island or St. Paul Island, or on any of the bars or coasts thereof, and those vessels or goods or any part thereof are saved by the superintendent, by any other officer of the Department or by any person under the authority of the Minister, those vessels or goods may be taken in charge by the superintendent or keeper, and unless the Minister otherwise directs, may be sent to Halifax, to be disposed of under the direction of the Minister, for the benefit of the owners, after payment of such salvage as the Minister directs to the establishment of Sable Island or St. Paul Island, as the case may be, and all other expenses incurred with respect to those vessels or goods.

Disposal of goods

524. (1) All goods saved as described in section 523 shall be held to be in possession of the Minister, and shall not, on any pretence, be taken out of the custody of the superintendent or keeper, or of any persons employed by either of them, except by order of the Minister, nor until payment of the salvage and expenses.

Customs duties

(2) The goods referred to in subsection (1) are liable to customs duties.

In what counties the Islands shall be deemed to be

525. Subject to section 521, in all proceedings in any court, Sable Island shall be held to be within the County of Halifax and St. Paul Island to be within the County of Victoria, in the Province of Nova Scotia, and any person charged with committing any offence on those Islands, or on the shores, banks or bars thereof, may be proceeded against and tried as if those Islands were actually within those counties respectively.


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