Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (SOR/2002-227)

Marginal note:Obligation on entry

• 27 (1) Unless these Regulations provide otherwise, for the purpose of the examination required by subsection 18(1) of the Act, a person must appear without delay before an officer at a port of entry.

• Marginal note:Seeking entry at a place other than a port of entry

  (2) Unless these Regulations provide otherwise, a person who seeks to enter Canada at a place other than a port of entry must appear without delay for examination at the port of entry that is nearest to that place.

• Marginal note:Refused entry elsewhere

  (3) For the purposes of section 18 of the Act, every person who has been returned to Canada as a result of the refusal of another country to allow that person entry is a person seeking to enter Canada.