Marginal note:Air transportation service deemed to be acquired in Canada

• 13. (1) An air transportation service that is acquired outside Canada is deemed to have been acquired in Canada and not outside Canada if any consideration for the service is paid

  • (a) by transmission from within Canada to a place outside Canada, by mail or electronic means, of cash, a cheque, a money order, a credit or debit card payment or any similar means of payment, to a ticket office, travel agency or air carrier or any representative of any of them;

  • (b) by delivery of an amount to an agency located within Canada for transmission to a ticket office, travel agency, air carrier or any representative of any of them located outside Canada; or

  • (c) by any other arrangement with a person outside Canada for the benefit or convenience of a person who is resident in Canada.

• Marginal note:Charter flights

  (2) If an air transportation service that begins in Canada is acquired outside Canada by a person in the course of a charter operation, the service is deemed to have been acquired in Canada and not outside Canada.

Marginal note:Duty of designated air carrier to collect charge

• 14. (1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), every designated air carrier from whom all or part of an air transportation service is acquired by a person who is required by this Act to pay a charge in respect of that service shall, as an agent of Her Majesty, collect the charge not later than the time the charge becomes payable by the person.

• Marginal note:Multiple carriers — service acquired in Canada

  (2) If an air transportation service acquired in Canada is comprised of transportation of an individual by air by two or more designated air carriers, any charge that is payable in respect of the service shall be collected

  • (a) if all of the tickets for the service are issued by a designated air carrier, by that carrier; or

  • (b) in any other case, by the designated air carrier operating the aircraft on which the individual first makes a chargeable emplanement.

• Marginal note:Issuing carrier deemed to be supplier of service

  (3) If a ticket for an air transportation service acquired in Canada is issued to a person by a designated air carrier that does not provide any part of the air transportation service, the air transportation service is deemed to have been acquired by the person from that designated air carrier.

• Marginal note:Multiple carriers — service acquired outside Canada

  (4) If an air transportation service acquired outside Canada is comprised of transportation of an individual by air by two or more designated air carriers, any charge that is payable in respect of the service shall be collected by the designated air carrier operating the first aircraft that transports the individual to a destination outside Canada and on which the individual makes a chargeable emplanement included in the service.

• Marginal note:Joint and several or solidary liability

  (5) If a designated air carrier issues a ticket and accepts consideration on behalf of another designated air carrier for an air transportation service acquired outside Canada in respect of which the other carrier is required to collect a charge, those carriers are jointly and severally or solidarily liable for all obligations under this Act arising from, or as a consequence of, the acquisition of the service or any failure to collect or pay the charge.