National Energy Board Act

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"Arbitration Committee" means an Arbitration Committee appointed pursuant to section 91;

"certificate" means a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued under Part III or III.1 except that "certificate" means

(a) in Part III, a certificate issued in respect of a pipeline, and

(b) in Part III.1, a certificate issued in respect of an international or interprovincial power line;

(a) a person having authority under a Special Act to construct or operate a pipeline, and

(b) a body corporate incorporated or continued under the Canada Business Corporations Act and not discontinued under that Act;

(a) electricity, to send from Canada by a line of wire or other conductor electricity produced in Canada,

(b) oil,

(i) to export within the meaning of any provision of the Energy Administration Act that defines export for the purposes of any charge imposed under that Act in relation to fuel for use by an aircraft or a vessel, or

(ii) to send or take by any means

(A) from Canada, or

(B) to a place outside Canada from any area of land not within a province that belongs to Her Majesty in right of Canada or in respect of which Her Majesty in right of Canada has the right to dispose of or exploit the natural resources and that is situated in submarine areas in the internal waters of Canada, the territorial sea of Canada or the continental shelf of Canada, or

(a) any hydrocarbon or mixture of hydrocarbons that, at a temperature of 15^oC and a pressure of 101.325 kPa, is in a gaseous state, or

(b) any substance designated as a gas product by regulations made under section 130;

"import" means, with reference to gas or oil, to bring into Canada through pipelines, by railway tank car, by tank truck or by tanker;

"international power line" means facilities constructed or operated for the purpose of transmitting electricity from or to a place in Canada to or from a place outside Canada;

"interprovincial power line" means facilities constructed or operated for the purpose of transmitting electricity from a place in a province to a place in Canada outside that province;

"lands" means lands the acquiring, taking or using of which is authorized by this Act or a Special Act, and includes real property and any interest or right in real property or land and, in the Province of Quebec, any immovable, any right in an immovable and the right of a lessee in respect of any immovable. Those interests and rights may be in, to, on, under, over or in respect of those lands;

"licence" means a licence issued under Part VI or VII except that "licence" means

(a) in Division I of Part VI, a licence for the exportation or importation of oil or gas,

(b) in Division II of Part VI, a licence for the exportation of electricity, and

"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;

(a) any hydrocarbon or mixture of hydrocarbons other than gas, or

(b) any substance designated as an oil product by regulations made under section 130;

"pipeline" means a line that is used or to be used for the transmission of oil, gas or any other commodity and that connects a province with any other province or provinces or extends beyond the limits of a province or the offshore area as defined in section 123, 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, or immovable and movable, and works connected to them, but does not include a sewer or water pipeline that is used or proposed to be used solely for municipal purposes;

"registrar of deeds" includes the registrar of land titles or other officer with whom title to land is registered;

(a) an Act of Parliament that authorizes a person named in the Act to construct or operate a pipeline or that is enacted with special reference to a pipeline that a person is by such an Act authorized to construct or operate, and

(b) letters patent issued under section 5.1 or 5.4 of the Canada Corporations Act, chapter C-32 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970, except for the purpose of paragraph 115(b) of this Act;

(a) for the shipment, transportation, transmission, care, handling or delivery of hydrocarbons or of another commodity that is transmitted through a pipeline, or for storage or demurrage or the like,

(b) for the provision of a pipeline when the pipeline is available and ready to provide for the transmission of oil or gas, and

(c) in respect of the purchase and sale of gas that is the property of a company and that is transmitted by the company through its pipeline, excluding the cost to the company of the gas at the point where it enters the pipeline.

R.S., 1985, c. N-7, s. 2; R.S., 1985, c. 28 (3^rd Supp.), s. 299; 1990, c. 7, s. 1; 1994, c. 24, s. 34(F); 1996, c. 10, s. 237, c. 31, s. 90; 2004, c. 25, s. 147(1).