2.1 [Repealed, SOR/2005-215, s. 2]

• 3. (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (5), if goods in a customs office have not been removed from the customs office 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 customs office have not been removed therefrom within four days after the day on which they are reported under section 12 of the Act, the goods may be deposited in a place of safe-keeping as provided in subsection 37(1) of the Act.

• (3) Where goods in a customs office 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 the goods have not been removed from the customs office within 14 days after the day on which the goods are reported under section 12 of the Act, the goods may be deposited in a place of safe-keeping as provided 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 customs office within 14 days after the day on which they were reported under section 12 of the Act.

• (5) 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 customs office within 21 days after the day on which they were reported under section 12 of the Act.

• 4. (1) Subject to subsection (2), commercial goods left at a customs office in accordance with paragraph 19(1)(e) of the Act are subject to the storage charges set out in the schedule, beginning on the fourth business day after the day on which the commercial goods were left at the customs office.

• (2) No storage charges are payable pursuant to subsection (1) on

  • (a) commercial goods that are imported by mail; or

  • (b) commercial goods that cannot be removed from the customs office by the owner or importer thereof by reason of

    • (i) a strike,

    • (ii) a court proceeding,

    • (iii) an unauthorized act of an officer or the omission by an officer to perform a duty imposed on him by the Act,

    • (iv) a mistake of a third party, or

    • (v) a natural disaster.

• 5. (1) For the purposes of subsection 39(1) of the Act and subject to subsections (2) and (3), goods that have not been removed from a place of safe-keeping within 30 days after they were deposited therein are, at the termination of that period of time, forfeit.

• (2) For the purposes of subsection 39(1) of the Act, perishable goods that have not been removed from a place of safe-keeping within 24 hours after they were deposited therein are, at the termination of that period of time, forfeit.

• (3) For the purposes of subsection 39(1) of the Act, goods that 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 that have not been removed from a place of safe-keeping within 24 hours after they were deposited therein are, at the termination of that period of time, forfeit.