Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act

Marginal note:Application for release of information

• 14 (1) A peace officer who is investigating a child abduction under section 282 or 283 of the Criminal Code may apply to the Minister, in the time and manner prescribed by the regulations, to have the information banks searched in order to release the information prescribed by the regulations to the peace officer.

• Marginal note:Supporting documents

  (2) The application must be accompanied by an affidavit submitted by the peace officer in accordance with subsection (3).

• Marginal note:Contents of affidavit

  (3) The affidavit must

  • (a) state that the officer has reasonable grounds to believe that an offence referred to in section 282 or 283 of the Criminal Code has been committed;

  • (b) state that the information will be used in the investigation of the offence;

  • (c) identify the person who is believed to have committed the offence and the child or children who is or are alleged to have been abducted; and

  • (d) state that reasonable steps have been taken to locate the person, child or children and that the person, child or children has or have not been located, and set out particulars of those reasonable steps.