Remission Order in Respect of Certain Fees for the Issuance of Identity and Travel Documents (2021 British Columbia Floods) (SI/2024-18)

Marginal note:Definition of document

1 In this Order, document means any of the following:

• (a) a passport, as defined in section 2 of the Canadian Passport Order;

• (b) a certificate of citizenship, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Citizenship Act;

• (c) a permanent resident card provided or issued under subsection 53(1) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations;

• (d) a certificate of identity;

• (e) a refugee travel document issued under the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, signed at Geneva on July 28, 1951, and the Protocol to that Convention, signed at New York on January 31, 1967.

Marginal note:Remission

2 Remission is granted to any person who meets the conditions set out in section 3 of the fees paid or payable under any of the following:

• (a) items 3 to 8, 14 and 15 of the schedule to the Passport and Other Travel Document Services Fees Regulations;

• (b) section 4 of the Consular Services Fees Regulations;

• (c) item 6 of the schedule to the Citizenship Regulations;

• (d) subsection 308(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations as it relates to the replacement of a permanent resident card.

Marginal note:Conditions

3 Remission is granted on the condition that

• (a) at some time during the period beginning on November 15, 2021 and ending on May 31, 2022, the person was in, or had their residence in an area in Canada affected by flooding events originating in British Columbia;

• (b) a document that was issued to that person was — while it was valid — lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible as a result of the flooding events;

• (c) during the period beginning on November 15, 2021 and ending on May 31, 2022, that person, or a person acting on their behalf, made an application in accordance with applicable regulations for the issuance of a document bearing, if applicable, the same expiry date as the document referred to in paragraph (b);

• (d) that person, or the person acting on their behalf, included with the application a declaration made by that person, or on their behalf, stating that the document to be replaced was lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible as a result of the flooding events referred to in paragraph (a) and

  • (i) proof that, at the time that the document was lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible, that person was a resident of an area referred to in paragraph (a), or

  • (ii) a declaration made by that person, or the person acting on their behalf, stating that, at the time that the document was lost, damaged, destroyed or rendered inaccessible, that person was in the area referred to in paragraph (a); and

• (e) the fees in question have not been remitted under section 11 of the Passport and Other Travel Document Services Fees Regulations.