The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications
has the honour to present its
FOURTH REPORT
Tuesday, May 9, 2000
Your Committee, to which was referred Bill S-17, an Act respecting marine liability, and to validate certain by-laws and regulations has, in obedience to the Order of Reference of Tuesday, April 4, 2000, examined the said Bill and now reports the same with the following amendments:
1. Page 10, Clause 29: Replace lines 4 to 15 with the following:
"loss of life or personal injury to persons carried on a ship otherwise than under a contract of passenger carriage is the greater of
(a) 2,000,000 units of account; and
(b) 175,000 units of account multiplied by
(i) the number of passengers that the ship is authorized to carry according to its certificate under Part V of the Canada Shipping Act; or
(ii) if no certificate is required under that Part, the number of persons on board the ship.
(3) Subsection (2) does not apply in respect of
(a) the master of a ship, a member of a ship’s crew or any other person employed or engaged in any capacity on board a ship on the business of the ship; or
(b) a person carried on board a ship other than a ship operated for a commercial or public purpose".
2. Page 14, Clause 37: Replace lines 31 to 39 with the following:
"the same or another place in Canada, either directly or by way of a place outside Canada;and
(b) the carriage by water, otherwise than under a contract of carriage, of persons or of persons and their luggage, excluding
(i) the master of a ship, a member of a ship’s crew or any other person employed or engaged in any capacity on board a ship on the business of the ship, and
(ii) a person carried on board a ship other than a ship operated for a commercial or public purpose".
Respectfully submitted,
LISE BACON
Chair