Quarantine Act (S.C. 2005, c. 20)

Marginal note:Designating analysts and certain officers

• 5 (1) The Minister may designate qualified persons, or classes of qualified persons, as analysts, screening officers or environmental health officers.

• Marginal note:Designating quarantine officers

  (2) The Minister may designate medical practitioners or other qualified health care practitioners, or classes of such persons, as quarantine officers.

• Marginal note:Designating review officers

  (3) The Minister may designate medical practitioners as review officers.

• Marginal note:Certificate to be produced

  (4) The Minister shall give a certificate of designation to every screening officer who is not also a customs officer, to every quarantine officer and to every environmental health officer. An officer to whom a certificate has been given shall produce it, on request, to the person in charge of a place or conveyance that the officer inspects and to any person that the officer questions.