Secure Air Travel Regulations

Marginal note:Prohibition — transporting passenger

• 7 (1) It is prohibited for an air carrier to transport a passenger if

  • (a) the passenger presents a piece of photo identification and does not resemble the photograph; or

  • (b) [Repealed, SOR/2019-325, s. 9]

  • (c) [Repealed, SOR/2019-325, s. 9]

  • (d) the passenger presents more than one form of identification and there is a significant discrepancy between those forms of identification.

• Marginal note:Exception

  (2) Despite paragraph (1)(a), an air carrier may transport a passenger who presents a piece of photo identification but does not resemble the photograph if

  • (a) the passenger’s appearance changed for medical reasons after the photograph was taken and the passenger presents the air carrier with a document signed by a health care professional that attests to that fact; or

  • (b) the passenger’s face is bandaged for medical reasons and the passenger presents the air carrier with a document signed by a health care professional that attests to that fact.