EDWARD VII CHAP

An Act to amend the Navigable Waters Protection Act.

[Assented to Uh May, 1910.

HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows : —

1. Sections 4 and 5 of The Navigable Waters Protection Act, chapter 115 of the Revised Statutes, 1906, are repealed and the following are substituted therefor : —

“4. No bridge, boom, dam, aboiteau, wharf, dock, pier, or other structure of any kind, shall be built or placed in or across any navigable water, unless the site thereof has been approved by the Governor in Council, nor unless such bridge, boom, dam, aboiteau, wharf, dock, pier or other structure is built and maintained in accordance with plans approved by the Governor in Council. The foregoing provisions of this section shall not apply to small wharfs not costing more than one thousand dollars, or groynes or other bank or beach protection works, or boat houses, which do not interfère with navigation.

“5. Any work to which this Part applies, which is built upon a site not approved by the Governor in Council, or whi ch is not built in accordance with plans so approved, or which, having been so built, is not maintained in accordance with such plans, may be removed and destroyed under the authority of the Governor in Council. ”