Ballast Water Regulations

Whereas the annexed Ballast Water Regulations establish standards that are additional or complementary to the standards set out in the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments, 2004, and the Administrator in Council is satisfied that those additional or complementary standards meet the objectives of the Convention;Therefore, His Excellency the Administrator of the Government of Canada in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Transport and the Minister of Natural Resources with respect to the provisions of the annexed Regulations other than section 26 and on the recommendation of the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans with respect to that section 26, makes the annexed Ballast Water Regulations pursuant to(a) subsections 35(1) and 35.1(1), section 190 and paragraphs 244(f), (g) and (h) of the Canada Shipping Act, 2001; and(b) subsection 43(1) of the Fisheries Act.^{notenotenotenotenotenotenotenote}