Marginal note:Application

• 34. (1) This section applies to the operator of any of the following conveyances:

  • (a) a conveyance that is used in the business of carrying persons or cargo; and

  • (b) a prescribed conveyance.

• Marginal note:Operator to inform quarantine officer before arrival

  (2) As soon as possible before a conveyance arrives at its destination in Canada, the operator shall inform a quarantine officer or cause a quarantine officer to be informed of any reasonable grounds to suspect that

  • (a) any person, cargo or other thing on board the conveyance could cause the spreading of a communicable disease listed in the schedule;

  • (b) a person on board the conveyance has died; or

  • (c) any prescribed circumstances exist.

• Marginal note:Operator to inform quarantine officer before departure

  (3) As soon as possible before a conveyance departs from Canada through a departure point, the operator shall inform a quarantine officer or cause a quarantine officer to be informed of any circumstance referred to in paragraphs (2)(a) to (c) that exists.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (4) No operator contravenes subsection (2) if it is not reasonably possible for the operator to inform a quarantine officer or cause a quarantine officer to be informed before the conveyance’s arrival at its destination in Canada, as long as the operator does so on the conveyance’s arrival at that destination.

Marginal note:Ministerial regulations

63. The Minister may make regulations amending the schedule by adding, deleting or amending the name of any communicable disease.

Marginal note:Contravention

71. Every person who contravenes subsection 6(2), 8(1) or 34(2) or (3), section 36 or 38, subsection 42(1), section 45 or 50, subsection 54(3), section 58 or 59 or subsection 73(2) or the regulations is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of not more than $750,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than six months, or to both.

(Section 2, subsections 15(2) and 34(2) and sections 45 and 63)