An Act to amend the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act (S.C. 2002, c. 12)
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Assented to 2002-04-30
Marginal note:1995, c. 5, par. 25(1)(n)
6. Section 11 of the Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Certificate of Minister of Foreign Affairs
11. A certificate purporting to be issued by or under the authority of the Minister of Foreign Affairs and containing any statement of fact relevant to any of the following questions shall be received in evidence in any action or proceeding as proof of the fact stated in the certificate without proof of the signature or official character of the person appearing to have signed the certificate:
(a) whether a diplomatic mission, a consular post or an office of a political subdivision of a foreign state has been established with the consent of the Government of Canada;
(b) whether an organization or conference is the subject of an order under section 5;
(c) whether a mission is accredited to an international organization;
(d) whether any premises or archives are the premises or archives of an office of a political subdivision of a foreign state; or
(e) whether any person, diplomatic mission, consular post, office of a political subdivision of a foreign state, international organization or accredited mission has privileges, immunities or benefits under this Act.
Importation of Alcohol
Marginal note:Importation of alcohol
11.1 For greater certainty,
(a) a person who, or a diplomatic mission, consular post, accredited mission or office of a political subdivision of a foreign state that, has privileges and immunities that are comparable to the privileges and immunities accorded under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations or Article 50 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations may, despite any provision of the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act, exercise those privileges and benefit from those immunities in respect of alcohol imported for their personal consumption or official use, as the case may be; and
(b) an international organization that has privileges and immunities that are comparable to the privileges and immunities accorded under Section 7 of Article II of the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations may, despite any provision of the Importation of Intoxicating Liquors Act, exercise those privileges and benefit from those immunities in respect of alcohol imported for its official use.
7. The heading before section 12 of the Act is replaced by the following:
Regulations and Orders
8. Section 13 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection (2):
Marginal note:Amendment to Schedule IV
(3) For the purpose of paragraph 5(1)(h.1), the Governor in Council may, by order, add to or delete from Schedule IV a reference to a treaty, convention or agreement, or amend a reference in that Schedule.
9. The Act is amended by adding, after Schedule III, the schedule set out in the schedule to this Act.
COORDINATING AMENDMENT
Marginal note:Bill C-11
10. If Bill C-11, introduced in the first session of the 37th Parliament and entitled the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (“the other Act”), receives royal assent, then, on the later of the coming into force of
(a) this Act, and
(b) the first of sections 33 to 43 of the other Act to come into force,
subsection 5(4) of the Foreign Missions and International Organizations Act is replaced by the following:
Marginal note:Immigration restrictions
(4) In the event of an inconsistency or conflict between an order made under subsection (1) and any of sections 33 to 43 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, the order prevails to the extent of the inconsistency or conflict.
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