Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (S.C. 2000, c. 17)

Marginal note:Interest

73.28 If a person or entity fails to remit a penalty payable under this Part to the Receiver General, the person or entity shall pay to the Receiver General interest on the amount of the penalty. The interest shall be calculated at the prescribed rate for the period beginning on the first day after the day on which the amount was required to be paid and ending on the day on which the amount is paid.

Marginal note:Garnishment

• 73.29 (1) If the Director is of the opinion that a person or entity is or is about to become liable to make a payment to a person or entity liable to pay a penalty or interest under this Part, the Director may, by written notice, require the first person or entity to pay without delay to the Receiver General, on account of the second person’s or entity’s liability, all or part of the money otherwise payable to the second person or entity.

• Marginal note:Applicability to future payments

  (2) If the Director requires an employer to pay to the Receiver General money otherwise payable to an employee as remuneration,

  • (a) the requirement is applicable to all future payments of remuneration until the liability is satisfied; and

  • (b) the employer shall pay to the Receiver General out of each payment of remuneration the amount that the Director stipulates in the notice.

• Marginal note:Discharge of liability

  (3) The receipt of the Director is a good and sufficient discharge of the original liability to the extent of the payment.

Marginal note:Write-off

• 73.3 (1) The Director may write off in whole or in part a penalty or interest payable by a person or entity under this Part.

• Marginal note:Effect of write-off

  (2) The writing off of a penalty or interest under this section does not affect any right of Her Majesty to collect or recover the penalty or interest.

Marginal note:Evidence

73.4 In a proceeding in respect of a violation or a prosecution for an offence, a notice of violation purporting to be issued under subsection 73.13(2), a notice of decision purporting to be issued under subsection 73.15(4) or 73.19(4), a notice of default purporting to be issued under subsection 73.18(1) or a certificate purporting to be made under subsection 73.26(1) is admissible in evidence without proof of the signature or official character of the person appearing to have signed it.

Marginal note:Time limit

• 73.5 (1) No proceedings in respect of a violation may be commenced later than two years after the subject-matter of the proceedings became known to the Centre.

• Marginal note:Certificate of Centre

  (2) A document appearing to have been issued by the Centre, certifying the day on which the subject-matter of any proceedings became known to the Centre, is admissible in evidence without proof of the signature or official character of the person appearing to have signed it and is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof of the matter asserted in it.