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Regulations amending
Certain Regulations Administered and Enforced by the
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
(SOR/97-292,
OIC 1997-883)
The amendments updates references in a number of
regulations to reflect the creation of the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency.
Amended are: Egg Regulations; Fresh Fruit and
Vegetable Regulations; Honey Regulations; Maple Products
Regulations; Processed Egg Regulations; Processed
Products Regulations; Dairy Product Regulations;
Licensing and Arbitration Regulations; Livestock and
Poultry Carcass Grading Regulations; Feeds Regulations,
1983; Fertilizers Regulations; Health of Animals
Regulations; Meat Inspection Regulations, 1990; Plant
Protection Regulations; and the Seeds
Regulations.
The amendments come into effect June 20, 1997.
Contact: Ron Doering, Executive Vice-President,
Canadian Food Inspection Agency, 59 Camelot Drive,
Room 128 B East, Nepean, Ontario, K1A 0Y9. Tel:
613-952-8000, ext. 3737; Fax: 613-228-6608.
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Canada Agricultural Products Act, section
32; Feeds Act, section 5; Health of Animals
Act, section 64; Meat Inspection Act, section
20; Plant Protection Act, section 47; and Seeds
Act, section 4
Not included in Regulatory Plan
To be published in Canada Gazette July 9, 1997
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Information Technology Agreement
Order, 1997
(SOR/97-294,
OIC 1997-839)
This Order implements tariff reductions in accordance
with Canada's commitment under the Information Technology
Agreement (ITA) which was acceded to by Canada and 38
other governments on March 26, 1997. The agreement
provides for the staged elimination of
Most-Favoured-Nation Tariffs on a broad range of
information technology products, with the first stage of
cuts being on July 1, 1997.
The Information Technology Agreement will eliminate
the tariffs on over 92% of the US $500 billion-a-year
global trade in information technology products and open
these markets to Canadian exporters.
The Order amends: Schedule I to the Customs
Tariff (Parts 1 to 4 of the Order); Schedule II as
set out in Part 5 of the schedule to the Order; and the
Customs Duties Reduction or Removal Order, 1988 (Part 6
of the schedule to the Order).
The Order comes into effect July 1, 1997.
Contact: Randy Freda, International Trade Policy
Division, Department of Finance, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A
0G5. Tel: 613-992-6355.
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Customs Tariff, section 12.1 and 62
Not included in Regulatory Plan
To be published in Canada Gazette July 9, 1997
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Marine Navigation Services
Fees Regulations, revocation
(SOR/97-295,
OIC 1997-840)
The revocation, effective July 1, 1997, will eliminate
the authority to charge the Marine Navigation Services
Fees under the Financial Administration Act
(something that is currently being challenged in court).
Instead, the Canadian Coast Guard intends to impose the
Marine Navigation Services Fees under the Oceans
Act.
The fees in question are controversial. On June 1,
1996, the government imposed the fees to help recover the
costs of marine navigation services provided by the Coast
Guard. The initial fees were set at a level of
$20-million for nine months in 1996-97. In 1997-98, the
Marine Navigation Services Fees are expected to generate
some $26.7-million, or about 27% of the estimated
$99-million in full costs of providing marine aids to
navigation and vessel traffic services to commercial
shippers.
While the fees are a small percentage of marine
transportation, they do not hit all sectors equally.
Hardest hit include the gypsum and aggregate industries
and the Miramichi area; mitigative measures for these are
scheduled for 1997-98 implementation by the Coast Guard.
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Financial Administration Act, paragraph
19(1)(a)
F&O/97-4-M
To be published in Canada Gazette July 9, 1997
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The final rate structure for the fees will be
published in Part I of the Canada Gazette within 30 days,
for comment.
Contact: Suzanne Shirreff, Director, Marine
Services Fees, Canadian Coast Guard, Canada Building,
Minto Place, 344 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0N7.
Tel: 613-993-6943; Fax: 613-990-3480.
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Immigration Regulations,
1978, amendment (Investor Program)
(SOR-97-296,
OIC 1997-841)
This amendment removes the restriction on the number
of allowable extensions for approved investor funds under
the Immigrant Investor Program, to enable all existing
funds to continue to be marketed until the expiry of the
Program.
The effect of this change will be to allow the
provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, whose funds
had already been extended twice, to continue to be active
in attracting investment. All other Program requirements
remain unchanged.
On April 24, 1997, the current Immigrant Investor
Program was extended until December 31, 1997 to allow
more time to consider input received following the recent
pre-publication of regulations on Program redesign. Under
the Program, only government-administered funds can
accept subscriptions (investors' capital). When funds are
initially approved by Citizenship and Immigration they
can accept subscriptions for a maximum of eighteen
months, which is also known as the offering period: funds
can apply for two extensions of the offering period for
up to six months each.
The amendment introduced in April of 1997 simply
extended the provisions of the Program then in effect; it
did not take into account the fact that some provincially
administered funds had already taken advantage of the
maximum number of extensions of offering periods possible
under the interim Program. The new change eliminates this
restriction on extensions by authorizing the Minister to
approve requests from government administered investment
funds for a six month extension of their offering period,
regardless of the number of previous extensions that the
fund had already been granted. The change replaces a part
of subsection 6.13(3) of the Regulations, before
paragraph (a); they come into effect June 25, 1997.
Contact: Don Myatt, Director Business, Immigration
Division, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, 7th Floor,
Jean Edmonds Tower North, 300 Slater Street, Ottawa,
Ontario, K1A lL1. Tel: 613-957-0001; Fax:
613-941-9014.
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Immigration Act,
paragraphs 114(1)(a)
CIC/95-3-M
To be published in Canada Gazette July 9, 1997
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Prohibition of Entry on Certain Lands in the Yukon
(1997-No. 2, Fishing Branch Ecological Reserve, Y.T.)
(SOR/97-297,
OIC 1997-843); Withdrawal from Disposal of Certain Lands
in the Yukon Territory (Fishing Branch Ecological
Reserve)
(SI/97-83, OIC
1997-844)
The Prohibition of Entry on Certain Lands Order, 1992,
No. 3, made by Order in Council P.C. 1992-1041 of May 14,
1992, prohibits entry on certain lands (approximately 166
square kilometers) to facilitate the establishment of the
Fishing Branch Ecological Reserve, located in the
vicinity of the Fishing Branch River and Bear Mountain,
in the Yukon Territory until June 30, 1997.
Pursuant to Chapter 15, Clause 15.3.4.3 of the Vuntut
Gwitchin First Nation Final Agreement of May 29, 1993
made between the Government of Canada, the Yukon
Territorial Government (YTG) and the Vuntut Gwitchin
First Nation, the Yukon Government has requested an
extension to the existing Order in Council until the
Settlement Land Committee defines the boundaries of the
ecological reserve.
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Yukon Placer Mining Act, section 98; Yukon
Quartz Mining Act, section 14.1; Territorial Lands
Act, paragraph 23(a)
INAC/R-1-I
To be published in Canada Gazette July 9, 1997
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The new Prohibition of Entry Order will continue to
ensure that no new third party interests are created on
the proposed Fishing Branch Ecological Reserve. The Order
in Council, effective on June 26, 1997, will end on June
30, 2002; the earlier Order is revoked.
The purpose of the second Order is to repeal the
Withdrawal of Certain Lands (Fishing Branch Ecological
Reserve, Y.T.) from Disposal Order, made by Order in
Council P.C. 1992-1048 of May 14, 1992 and to make in
substitution therefor the Order Respecting the Withdrawal
from Disposal of Certain Lands in the Yukon Territory,
for the period beginning June 26, 1997 and ending on June
30, 2002, to facilitate the establishment of the Fishing
Branch Ecological Reserve.
Contact: Ian Sneddon, Chief, Land Management
Division, Department of Indian Affairs and Northern
Development, Les Terrasses de la Chaudière, 10
Wellington Street, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0H4; Tel:
819-997-9090; Fax: 819-953-2590.
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Ministerial Orders
Approved
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Statutory Authority
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Regulatory Plan Listing
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Canadian Chicken
Marketing Levies Order, amendments
(SOR/97-293)
These amendments set the levy rates to be paid by
producers engaged, in the provinces of Ontario, Nova
Scotia and Manitoba, in the marketing of chicken in
interprovincial or export trade, effective July 1, 1997.
More specifically, the rates are changed as follows:
Ontario, 1.39 cents; Nova Scotia, 1.12 cents; and
Manitoba, 1.34 cents.
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Farm Products Agencies
Act, paragraph 22(1)(f);
Canadian Chicken Marketing
Agency Proclamation, section 12 of the Schedule
Not included in Regulatory Plan
To be published in Canada Gazette July 9, 1997
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Rules of the Supreme Court of
Canada, amendment
(SOR/97-299)
Under the amendments, subsection 11(4) of the Rules
of the Supreme Court of Canada is replaced by the
following:
"(4) The month of July shall not be
included in the computation of the times appointed or
allowed by these Rules for the doing of any act, except
for the filing of the case as provided in subsection
34(1) and factums as provided by Rule 38 and for the
purpose of determining the date set out in subsection
44(2)."
In addition, paragraph 16(3)(b) of the English version
of the Rules before subparagraph (i) is replaced by the
following:
"(a) on the next day after it was received
that is not a Saturday or holiday, if it was received".
The amended rules come into force June 27, 1997.
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Supreme Court Act, section 97
Not included in Regulatory Plan
To be published in Canada Gazette July 9, 1997
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