Customs Brokers Licensing Regulations

4 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a sufficient knowledge of the laws and procedures relating to importations and exportations is established, for the purposes of paragraph 3(1)(e), subparagraphs 3(2)(a)(iii) and (b)(iii) and paragraph 3(3)(d), if the individual, partner or officer has written the Customs Brokers Professional Examination, given under section 15, and attained a grade of at least 60 per cent on it

• (a) not more than one year before the day on which the application for a licence was made; or

• (b) more than one year before the day on which the application for a licence was made if the individual, partner or officer transacted business as a customs broker, whether on their own behalf or on behalf of a licensee, from within one year after the day on which the examination was written until not more than one year before the day on which the application for a licence was made.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph 3(1)(e), subparagraphs 3(2)(a)(iii) and (b)(iii) and paragraph 3(3)(d), a sufficient knowledge of the laws and procedures relating to importations and exportations is established, if the individual, partner or officer

• (a) prior to the coming into force of these Regulations, met the requirement under the Custom-House Brokers Licensing Regulations of having a sufficient knowledge of the law relating to customs matters to discharge the obligations of a customs broker; and

• (b) transacted business as a customs broker, whether on his own behalf or on behalf of a person to whom a licence was issued under subsection 118(1) of the former Customs Act, being chapter C-40 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1970, until not more than six months before the date of the application for a licence.