Customs Sufferance Warehouses Regulations (SOR/86-1065)

Regulations are current to 2013-05-20

  •  (1) Every licensee shall make a schedule of the charges payable for the services offered by the licensee and shall make the schedule available for examination by any person who requests to see it.

  • (2) Any facilities, services, personnel and equipment provided by a licensee to an officer under any of paragraphs 11(1)(a) to (c) shall be provided free of charge.

  • SOR/95-177, s. 7.

Receipt and Refusal of Goods

[SOR/95-519, s. 4]

 Every licensee shall acknowledge the receipt of goods in the sufferance warehouse by

  • (a) endorsing the bill of lading, way-bill or other similar transportation document presented to him by the carrier;

  • (b) endorsing the customs document on which the goods were reported under the Reporting of Imported Goods Regulations; or

  • (c) issuing a transfer document to the carrier.

 A licensee may refuse goods that are brought to the sufferance warehouse for safe-keeping when the storage of the goods is requested by or on behalf of a person who has an unpaid account for storage fees at the sufferance warehouse.

  • SOR/95-519, s. 4.

 [Repealed, SOR/2005-211, s. 3]

Time Limits

  •  (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4.1), if goods in a sufferance warehouse have not been removed from the sufferance warehouse within 40 days after the day on which the goods were reported under section 12 of the Act, the goods may, at the end of that limitation period, be deposited in a place of safe-keeping as provided for in subsection 37(1) of the Act.

  • (2) Where perishable goods in a sufferance warehouse have not been removed therefrom within four days after the day on which they were reported under section 12 of the Act, the goods may be deposited in a place of safe-keeping as provided for in subsection 37(1) of the Act.

  • (3) Where goods in a sufferance warehouse are prescribed substances within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Control Act or prescribed items within the meaning of the Atomic Energy Control Regulations and have not been removed therefrom within 14 days after the day on which the goods were reported under section 12 of the Act, the goods may be deposited in a place of safe-keeping as provided for in subsection 37(1) of the Act.

  • (4) For the purposes of subsection 39.1(1) of the Act, firearms, prohibited ammunition, prohibited devices, prohibited or restricted weapons and tobacco products are goods of a prescribed class that are forfeit if they are not removed from a sufferance warehouse within 14 days after the day on which they were reported under section 12 of the Act.

  • (4.1) For the purposes of subsection 39.1(1) of the Act, spirits are goods of a prescribed class that are forfeit if they are not removed from a sufferance warehouse within 21 days after the day on which they were reported under section 12 of the Act.

  • (5) Every licensee shall provide the Agency with a list of all goods not removed from the sufferance warehouse within the time limit prescribed in subsection (1), (2), (3), (4) or (4.1), as the case may be, on the first business day following the end of that period.

  • SOR/95-519, s. 4;
  • SOR/96-38, s. 6;
  • SOR/96-152, s. 4;
  • SOR/2005-211, ss. 4, 7(E).