Secure Air Travel Act

Marginal note:List

• 8 (1) The Minister may establish a list on which is placed the given name, the surname, any known alias, the date of birth and the gender of any person who the Minister has reasonable grounds to suspect will

  • (a) engage or attempt to engage in an act that would threaten transportation security; or

  • (b) travel by air for the purpose of committing an act or omission that

    • (i) is an offence under section 83.18, 83.19 or 83.2 of the Criminal Code or an offence referred to in paragraph (c) of the definition terrorism offence in section 2 of that Act, or

    • (ii) if it were committed in Canada, would constitute an offence referred to in subparagraph (i).

• Marginal note:Review of list

  (2) The Minister must review the list every 90 days to determine whether the grounds for which each person’s name was added to the list under subsection (1) still exist and whether the person’s name should remain on the list. The review does not affect the validity of the list.

• Marginal note:Amendment of list

  (3) The Minister may at any time amend the list

  • (a) by deleting the name of a person and all information relating to them if the grounds for which their name was added to the list no longer exist; or

  • (b) by changing the information relating to a listed person.

• Marginal note:Exemption from Statutory Instruments Act

  (4) The list is exempt from the application of the Statutory Instruments Act.