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Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (S.C. 2001, c. 27)

Act current to 2024-03-06 and last amended on 2023-12-15. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Documents

  •  (1) No person shall, in order to contravene this Act,

    • (a) possess a passport, visa or other document, of Canadian or foreign origin, that purports to establish or that could be used to establish a person’s identity;

    • (b) use such a document, including for the purpose of entering or remaining in Canada; or

    • (c) import, export or deal in such a document.

  • Marginal note:Proof of offence

    (2) Proof of the matters referred to in subsection (1) in relation to a forged document or a document that is blank, incomplete, altered or not genuine is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof that the person intends to contravene this Act.


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