Secure Air Travel Act (S.C. 2015, c. 20, s. 11)

Marginal note:Powers to enter, seize and detain

• 28 (1) The Minister of Transport may

  • (a) enter any place, including any aircraft, aerodrome or other aviation facility or any premises used by the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, for the purposes of making inspections or audits relating to the verification of compliance with this Act, regardless of whether or not the inspection or audit relates to that place or to the person who possesses, occupies or controls it; and

  • (b) remove any document or other thing from the place where the inspection or audit is being carried out for examination or, in the case of a document, for copying.

• Marginal note:Operation of computer systems and copying equipment

  (2) In carrying out an inspection or audit in any place referred to in paragraph (1)(a), the Minister of Transport may

  • (a) use or cause to be used any computer system or data processing system at the place to examine any data contained in, or available to, the system;

  • (b) reproduce any record, or cause it to be reproduced from the data, in the form of a printout or other intelligible output, and remove the printout or other output for examination or copying; and

  • (c) use or cause to be used any copying equipment at the place to make copies of any books, records, electronic data or other documents.

• Marginal note:Search warrants

  (3) Sections 487 to 492 of the Criminal Code apply in respect of any offence committed or suspected to have been committed under this Act.