Plant Protection Regulations (SOR/95-212)

• 6. (1) An inspector or a peace officer acting on the request of an inspector may affix a seal to a conveyance or any other thing.

• (2) Each seal shall bear a number and the inscription “CANADA — C.F.I.A./A.C.I.A.”.

• (3) No person, other than an inspector or a person authorized in writing by an inspector, shall have a seal bearing the information referred to in subsection (2) or any facsimile thereof in the person’s possession, custody or control.

• 7. (1) Except as authorized by an inspector pursuant to subsection (2), no person, other than an inspector, shall remove, break, tamper with or alter a seal.

• (2) Where it would be impracticable for an inspector to remove or break a seal, any inspector may authorize any person in writing to do so on the inspector’s behalf.

• (3) An owner or a person having the possession, care or control of a conveyance or any other thing on which a seal is affixed, shall ensure that the seal is not removed, broken, tampered with or altered except in accordance with this section.

8. No person shall use any document issued under the Act or any regulation or order made thereunder for a purpose other than that for which the document was issued.

• 9. (1) No person shall have in the person’s possession, custody or control, or use, a document referred to in the Act or any regulation or order made thereunder, if the document is false or improperly obtained.

• (2) No person shall have in the person’s possession, custody or control, or use, any document that has not been issued pursuant to the Act or any regulation or order made thereunder and that so resembles such a document that it could be mistaken for a document issued for the purposes of the Act or any regulation or order made thereunder.

• 10. (1) Any document required to be furnished to the Minister or an inspector under the Act or any regulation or order made thereunder may be furnished in electronic form.

• (2) Where a document referred to in subsection (1) is furnished in electronic form, an original hard copy of the document shall be furnished to the Minister or an inspector within a reasonable period after the document is furnished in electronic form.

• (3) The hard copy of a document referred to in subsection (2) is not required if the document is sent in electronic form directly from the phytosanitary certification authorities of a foreign country to the Minister or an inspector in accordance with an agreement between the Minister and those authorities to furnish documents directly to the Minister in electronic form.

• 11. (1) Where the Minister or an inspector believes on reasonable grounds that a thing is a pest or that a period is required to determine if a thing is a pest, is or could be infested or constitutes or could constitute a biological obstacle to the control of a pest, any inspector may require that the thing be quarantined.

• (2) Where an inspector quarantines a thing, any inspector may specify in writing the period of the quarantine and the conditions necessary for the purpose of detecting a pest or biological obstacle to the control of a pest or preventing or controlling the spread of a pest or biological obstacle to the control of a pest.