Proceedings of the Standing Senate Committee on
Transport and Communications

Issue 13 - Fourth Report of the Committee

The Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications has the honour to present its

FOURTH REPORT

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 itscertificate 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