Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 152, Number 29: ORDERS IN COUNCIL

July 21, 2018

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORT

AERONAUTICS ACT

Interim Order Respecting Battery-powered Hand-held Lasers

P.C. 2018-986 July 9, 2018

Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Transport, pursuant to subsection 6.41(2) footnote a of the Aeronautics Act footnote b, approves the Interim Order Respecting Battery-powered Hand-held Lasers, made by the Minister of Transport on June 28, 2018.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order approves Interim Order Respecting Battery-powered Hand-held Lasers made by the Minister of Transport on June 28, 2018, and published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, on July 7, 2018. Without this approval, the Interim Order Respecting Battery-powered Hand-held Lasers would, in accordance with subsection 6.41(2) of the Aeronautics Act, cease to have effect 14 days after it was made. As a result of this approval, the Interim Order Respecting Battery-powered Hand-held Lasers will, in accordance with subsection 6.41(3) of the Aeronautics Act, cease to have effect one year after the day on which it was made or on the day on which regulations that have the same effect come into force, whichever is earlier. The Department of Transport expects to publish amendments to the Canadian Aviation Regulations that will have the same effect as Interim Order Respecting Battery-powered Hand-held Lasers in 2019.