An Act to amend the Customs Act (S.C. 2018, c. 30)

• Published date: 12 March 2019
• Section: Part III - Acts of Parliament
• Gazette Issue: 2 - [object Object]

S.C. 2018, c. 30

Assented to 2018-12-13

An Act to amend the Customs Act

SUMMARY

This enactment amends the Customs Act to authorize the Canada Border Services Agency to collect, from prescribed persons and prescribed sources, personal information on all persons who are leaving or have left Canada. It also amends the Act to authorize an officer, as defined in that Act, to require that goods that are to be exported from Canada are to be reported despite any exemption under that Act. In addition, it amends the Act to provide officers with the power to examine any goods that are to be exported. Finally, it amends the Act to authorize the disclosure of information collected under the Customs Act to an official of the Department of Employment and Social Development for the purposes of administering or enforcing the Old Age Security Act.

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

R.S., c. 1 (2nd Supp.)Customs Act

1 The heading of Part V of the Customs Act is replaced by the following:

Collection of Information About Persons and Goods

2 The Act is amended by adding the following before section 95:

Persons Leaving Canada

Marginal note:Information

• 92 (1) In relation to any person who is leaving Canada or who has left Canada, the Agency may collect, from a prescribed source, in the prescribed circumstances, within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner, the following information:

  • (a) the surname, first name and middle names, the date of birth, the citizenship or nationality and the sex of the person;

  • (b) the type of travel document that identifies the person, the name of the country or organization that issued the travel document and the travel document number; and

  • (c) the date, time and place of the person’s departure from Canada and, if the person arrives in the United States, the date, time and place of their arrival.

• Marginal note:Regulations

  (2) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the purposes of subsection (1), including regulations

  • (a) prescribing the sources from which the information may be collected;

  • (b) respecting the circumstances in which the information may be collected; and

  • (c) respecting the time within which and the manner in which the information may be collected.

Marginal note:Information given to Agency

• 93 (1) With respect to a prescribed conveyance that departs or is expected to depart from a place inside Canada and that has a final destination outside of Canada, a prescribed person shall give the Agency, in the prescribed circumstances, within the prescribed time and in the prescribed manner,

  • (a) in relation to the conveyance or its travel route, the last place inside Canada from which it departed, regardless of whether persons boarded the conveyance at that place, the date and time of that departure and any prescribed information; and

  • (b) in relation to any person on board or expected to be on board that conveyance, the following information:

    • (i) the surname, first name and middle names, the date of birth, the citizenship or nationality and the...