An Act to amend certain Acts of Canada, and to enact measures for implementing the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, in order to enhance public safety (S.C. 2004, c. 15)

Marginal note:Foreign states requiring information

• 4.83 (1) Despite section 5 of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, to the extent that that section relates to obligations set out in Schedule 1 to that Act relating to the disclosure of information, and, despite subsection 7(3) of that Act, an operator of an aircraft departing from Canada that is scheduled to land in a foreign state or of a Canadian aircraft departing from any place outside Canada that is scheduled to land in a foreign state may, in accordance with the regulations, provide to a competent authority in that foreign state any information that is in its control relating to persons on board or expected to be on board the aircraft and that is required by the laws of the foreign state.

• Marginal note:Restriction — government institutions

  (2) No information provided under subsection (1) to a competent authority in a foreign state may be collected from that foreign state by a government institution, within the meaning of section 3 of the Privacy Act, unless it is collected for the purpose of protecting national security or public safety or for the purpose of defence or for the purpose of administering or enforcing any Act of Parliament that prohibits, controls or regulates the importation or exportation of goods or the movement of people in or out of Canada, and any such information collected by the government institution may be used or disclosed by it only for one or more of those purposes.

Screenings

Marginal note:Designation of persons to conduct

4.84 The Minister may designate, in writing, persons to conduct screenings, subject to any restrictions or conditions that the Minister may specify.

Marginal note:Prohibition — persons and goods

• 4.85 (1) If an aviation security regulation, a security measure, an emergency direction or an interim order requires a person to be screened, a person shall not enter or remain in an aircraft or in an aviation facility or a restricted area of an aerodrome unless the person permits a screening, or screenings, to be carried out in accordance with the regulation, security measure, emergency direction or interim order, as the case may be, of

  • (a) his or her person; or

  • (b) the goods that the person intends to take or have placed on board the aircraft or to take into the aviation facility or the restricted area of the aerodrome or, as the case may be, the goods that the person has taken or placed on board the aircraft or has taken into the aviation facility or the restricted area of the aerodrome.

• Marginal note:Prohibition — conveyances

  (2) If an aviation security regulation, a security measure, an emergency direction or an interim order requires a conveyance to be screened, an operator of a conveyance shall not allow the conveyance to enter or remain in an aviation facility or a restricted area of an aerodrome unless the operator permits a screening, or screenings, to be carried out of the conveyance in accordance with the regulation, security measure, emergency direction or interim order, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Prohibition relating to air carriers

  (3) If an aviation security regulation, a security measure, an emergency direction or an interim order requires a person or goods to be screened, no air carrier shall transport the person or the goods unless the person or goods have been screened in accordance with the regulation, security measure, emergency direction or interim order, as the case may be.

• Marginal note:Prohibition relating to persons who accept goods for transportation

  (4) A person who accepts any goods for transportation shall not tender the goods for transportation by air unless the person has screened the goods as may be required by any aviation security regulation, security measure, emergency direction or interim order, as the case may be.

Air Carrier and Aerodrome Assessments

Marginal note:Assessment

4.86 The Minister may conduct aviation security assessments outside Canada of air carriers that operate or intend to operate flights to Canada or of facilities relating to the operations of those air carriers.

Verifying Compliance and Testing Effectiveness

Marginal note:No offence

4.87 A person authorized by the Minister to verify compliance with aviation security regulations, security measures, emergency directions or interim orders, or to test the effectiveness of equipment, systems and processes used with respect to aircraft, aerodromes and other aviation facilities, does not commit an offence if the person commits any act or omission that is required in the course of any such verification or testing and that would otherwise constitute a contravention of an aviation security regulation, a security measure, an emergency direction or an interim order.

Marginal note:Restrictions and prohibitions for safety or security purposes

5.1 The Minister or any person authorized by the Minister may by notice prohibit or restrict the operation of aircraft on or over any area or within any airspace, either absolutely or subject to any exceptions or conditions that the Minister or person may specify, if, in the opinion of the Minister or person, the prohibition or restriction is necessary for aviation safety or security or the protection of the public.

General Provisions respecting Regulations, Orders, etc.

Marginal note:Exemption by Governor in Council

• 5.9 (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations exempting, on any terms and conditions that may be specified in the regulations, any person, aeronautical product, aerodrome, facility or service, or any class of persons, aeronautical products, aerodromes, facilities or services, from the application of any regulation or order made under this Part.

• Marginal note:Exemption by Minister

  (2) The Minister or an officer of the Department of Transport authorized by the Minister for the purpose of this subsection may, on any terms and conditions that the Minister or officer, as the case may be, considers necessary, exempt any person, aeronautical product, aerodrome, facility or service, or any class of persons, aeronautical products, aerodromes, facilities or services, from the application of any regulation, order or security measure made under this Part if the exemption, in the opinion of the Minister or officer, as the case may be, is in the public interest and is not likely to adversely affect aviation safety or security.

• Marginal note:Incorporation by reference

  (3) A regulation, an order, a security measure or an emergency direction made under this Part that incorporates by reference a classification, standard, procedure or other specification may incorporate it as it is amended from time to time and in such a case the reference shall be read accordingly.

• Marginal note:Prohibition in regulations or orders

  (4) A regulation, an order, a security measure or an emergency direction made under this Part prohibiting the doing of any act or thing may prohibit the doing of that act or thing either at all times and places or only at specified times, places and occasions, and may do so either absolutely or subject to any specified exceptions or conditions.

Marginal note:Exemption from Statutory Instruments Act

• 6.2 (1) The following are exempt from the application of sections 3, 5 and 11 of the Statutory Instruments Act:

  • (a) a regulation made under paragraph 4.9(l), or a notice issued under section 5.1, that prohibits or restricts the use of any airspace or aerodrome;

  • (b) a security measure;

  • (c) an emergency direction;

  • (d) an exemption made under subsection 5.9(2); and

  • (e) an interim order made under section 6.41.

• Marginal note:Precondition for contravention

  (2) No person shall be found to have contravened any regulation or notice referred to in paragraph (1)(a), any security measure or emergency direction or any interim order that has not been published in the Canada Gazette under subsection 6.41(4) at the time of the alleged contravention unless it is proved that, at the time of the alleged contravention, the person had been notified of the regulation, security measure, emergency direction or interim order or reasonable steps had been taken to bring its purport to the notice of those persons likely to be affected by it.

• Marginal note:Certificate

  (3) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Minister or the Secretary of the Department of Transport and stating that a notice containing the regulation, notice referred to in paragraph (1)(a), security measure, emergency direction or interim order was given to persons likely to be affected by it is, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, proof that notice was given to those persons.