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Export and Import of Rough Diamonds Act — E-18.5 34
Regulations 34 The Governor in Council may make any regulations that are necessary for carrying out the purposes or provisions of this Act, including regulations (a) prescribing the fees payable for the issuance or replacement of a Canadian Certificate; and (b) designating any place as a point of entry for importing rough diamonds or as a point of exit for exporting them.
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Ministerial regulations 35 The Minister may make regulations (a) prescribing the classes of diamonds to be excluded from the definition rough diamond in section 2; (a.1) respecting the manner of submitting an application under subsection 9(1) or section 11 and specifying the information that must be included in it and the documents that must accompany it; (b) specifying the content of Canadian Certificates and the period of their validity; (c) respecting the place and manner of submitting a report under subsection 13(1) and specifying the information that must be included in it; (d) respecting the place and manner of submitting a report under subsection 16(1) and specifying the information that must be included in the report and documents that must accompany it; (e) prescribing the requirements for containers to be used for the export or import of rough diamonds; (f) prescribing the records, books of account or other documents or data to be kept by persons who export or import rough diamonds, their form and content and the period during which they must be kept; and (g) respecting the disposition of rough diamonds or other things that are forfeited under this Act, the persons to be notified of their disposition and the manner of the notification. 2002, c. 25, s. 35; 2005, c. 51, s. 6
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False or misleading information, and misrepresentation 36 No person shall wilfully furnish any false or misleading information or knowingly make any misrepresentation in an application for a Canadian Certificate or in connection with any subsequent use of the certificate or the export or disposition of the rough diamonds to which it relates.
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Forging or altering a Canadian Certificate 37 No person shall forge a Canadian Certificate or erase or alter information appearing on one.
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Transfer, sale, etc., of a Canadian Certificate 38 No person shall transfer, assign, give, barter or sell a Canadian Certificate if the person knows or ought to know that it will be used for the export of rough diamonds other than those in respect of which it was issued.
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Failing to maintain or falsifying records 39 No person shall, in order to avoid compliance with this Act, (a) destroy, alter, mutilate, secrete or dispose of records, books of account or other documents or data that they are required to keep under the regulations; (b) make false or deceptive entries in those records, books, documents or data; or (c) omit a material particular from those records, books, documents or data.
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Obstruction 40 No person shall interfere with an inspector who is doing, or hinder or prevent an inspector from doing, anything that the inspector is authorized to do under this Act.
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Summary conviction offence 40.1 (1) Every person who contravenes subsection 13(1) or (2) or 16(1) or (2) or section 22 or 40 is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. Limitation period (2) A prosecution under subsection (1) may be instituted not later than three years after the time when the subject-matter of the complaint arose.
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Punishment 41 (1) Subject to subsection (2), every person who contravenes section 8 or 14 or any of sections 36 to 39 is guilty of (a) an indictable offence and liable to a fine in an amount that is in the discretion of the court or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years, or to both; or (b) an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine not exceeding $25,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months, or to both. Defence (2) No person may be convicted of an offence for contravening section 14 in relation to rough diamonds that the Minister has ordered returned under subsection 15(1). Limitation period (3) A prosecution under paragraph (1)(b) may be instituted not later than three years after the time when the subject-matter of the complaint arose. Factors to be considered when imposing sentence (4) If an offender is convicted or discharged, under section 730 of the Criminal Code , of an offence under this Act, the court sentencing or discharging the offender shall, in addition to considering any other relevant factors, consider the nature and value of the exported or imported rough diamonds that are the subject-matter of the offence. Additional fine (5) If a person has been convicted of an offence under this Act and the court is satisfied that monetary benefits accrued to the person as a result of the commission of the offence, the court may order the person to pay an additional fine in an amount equal to the court’s determination of the amount of the monetary benefits.
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Officers, etc., of corporations 42 If a corporation commits an offence under this Act, any officer or director of the corporation who directed, authorized, assented to, acquiesced in or participated in the commission of the offence is a party to and guilty of the offence and is liable on conviction to the punishment provided for the offence whether or not the corporation has been prosecuted or convicted.
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Applicant for Certificate for non-resident 43 If a Canadian Certificate is issued to a person who has applied for it for, on behalf of or for the use of another person who is not a resident of Canada and that other person commits an offence under this Act, the person who applied for the certificate is, whether or not the non-resident person has been prosecuted or convicted, guilty of the like offence and liable, on conviction, to the punishment provided for the offence, on proof that the act or omission constituting the offence took place with the knowledge or consent of the person who applied for the certificate or that the person who applied for it failed to exercise due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence.
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Venue 44 Any proceeding in respect of an offence under this Act may be instituted, tried or determined in the province where the offence was committed or in the province in which the person charged with the offence is, resides or has an office or place of business at the time the proceedings are instituted.
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Evidence 45 (1) The original or a copy of a bill of lading, customs form, commercial invoice or other document, in this section called a “shipping document”, is admissible in evidence in any prosecution under this Act in respect of rough diamonds if it appears from the shipping document that (a) the rough diamonds were sent or shipped from Canada or came into Canada; (b) a person, as shipper, consignor or consignee, sent or shipped the rough diamonds from Canada or brought the rough diamonds into Canada; or (c) the rough diamonds were sent or shipped to a particular destination or person. Proof of the facts (2) In the absence of evidence to the contrary, a shipping document that is admissible in evidence under subsection (1) is proof of any of the facts set out in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c).
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Review 45.1 (1) Three years after its coming into force, the Minister shall cause a review of the provisions and operation of this Act to be undertaken. Report (2) The Minister shall, within six months after causing a review to be undertaken pursuant to subsection (1), submit a report on the review to Parliament. If Parliament is not then sitting, the Minister shall submit the report to Parliament within the first 15 sitting days thereafter.
Export and Import of Rough Diamonds Act — E-18.5 Coming into force
Coming into force * 46 The provisions of this Act come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council. * [Note: Act in force January 1, 2003, see SI/2003-3.]
Export Act — E-18 1
Short title 1 This Act may be cited as the Export Act . R.S., c. E-16, s. 1
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Export duties on certain logs and pulpwood 2 (1) If any country imposes a duty on any of the articles enumerated in the schedule when imported into that country from Canada, the Governor in Council may by proclamation declare an export duty chargeable on pine, Douglas fir, spruce, fir balsam, cedar and hemlock logs and pulpwood exported from Canada to that country. Idem (2) The export duty declared under subsection (1) shall not exceed three dollars per thousand feet, board measure, but in case of the export of logs or pulpwood in shorter lengths than nine feet, a rate per cord may be levied in the same manner not greater than the equivalent of the rate of three dollars per thousand feet, board measure. R.S., c. E-16, s. 2
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Export duties on certain ores 3 The Governor in Council may by proclamation impose the following export duties on the following ores and metals: (a) on nickel contained in matte, in the ore or in any crude or partially manufactured state, when exported from Canada, an export duty not exceeding ten cents per pound; (b) on copper contained in any matte or ore that also contains nickel, when exported from Canada, an export duty not exceeding two cents per pound; (c) on ores that contain copper or any metal other than nickel or lead, when exported from Canada, an export duty not exceeding fifteen per cent of the value of the ores; and (d) on lead ores, and on lead and silver ores, when exported from Canada to a country that imposes an import duty on lead in bars, or in the form of pig lead, in excess of the import duty on lead contained in lead ores, or in lead and silver ores, an export duty on the lead contained in the ores so exported from Canada to an amount per pound equivalent to the excess. R.S., c. E-16, s. 3
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When duties chargeable 4 (1) The export duties provided for by this Act are chargeable after the publication of the proclamation by which they are declared chargeable or imposed. Duties may be removed and reimposed (2) The Governor in Council may by proclamation remove and reimpose any export duty. R.S., c. E-16, s. 4
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Prohibiting export 5 (1) The Governor in Council may by regulation prohibit the exportation from Canada of (a) petroleum in its crude or partly manufactured state; and (b) pulpwood of the variety, kind, place of origin or having the particulars of identification or ownership or production described in the regulation. Laid before Parliament (2) Every regulation made pursuant to subsection (1) shall be laid before both Houses of Parliament within the first fifteen days of the session next after the date thereof, and the regulation shall remain in force until the day immediately succeeding the date of prorogation of that session of Parliament and no longer unless during the session it is approved by resolution of both Houses of Parliament. R.S., c. E-16, s. 5
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Restrictions on the movement of intoxicating liquors 6 (1) Notwithstanding any other statute or law, any regulation made thereunder or any bond, agreement or other instrument relating thereto, (a) no intoxicating liquor held in accordance with the Customs Act , the Excise Act or the Excise Act, 2001 shall be released or removed from any warehouse or other building or place in which the liquor is stored in any case in which the liquor proposed to be removed is destined for delivery in any country into which the importation of the liquor is prohibited by law; (b) it is unlawful to grant a clearance to any vessel having on board any intoxicating liquor destined for delivery in any country into which the importation of the liquor is prohibited by law; and (c) it is unlawful to make any entry for exportation of any intoxicating liquor destined for delivery in any country into which the importation of the liquor is prohibited by law. Definition of intoxicating liquor (2) In this section, intoxicating liquor includes every spirituous or malt liquor, and every wine, and any and every combination of liquors or drinks that is intoxicating, and any mixed liquor capable of being used as a beverage, and part of which is spirituous or otherwise intoxicating. Orders and regulations (3) The Governor in Council may make such orders and regulations as he may consider necessary for giving effect to any of the provisions of this section. R.S., 1985, c. E-18, s. 6; R.S., 1985, c. 1 (2nd Supp.), s. 213; 2002, c. 22, s. 393
Export Act — E-18
Timber or lumber or wood, namely: lumber and timber planks and boards of amaranth, cocoboral, boxwood, cherry, chestnut, walnut, gumwood, mahogany, pitch pine, rosewood, sandalwood, sycamore, spanish cedar, oak, hickory, whitewood, African teak, black-heart ebony, lignum vitae, red cedar, redwood, satinwood and white ash, when not otherwise manufactured than roughsawn or split or creosoted, vulcanized or treated by any other preserving process; sawed or split boards, planks, deals and other lumber when not further manufactured than dressed on one side only or creosoted, vulcanized or treated by any preserving process; pine and spruce clapboards; timber or lumber hewn or sawed, squared or sided or creosoted; laths, pickets and palings; staves not listed or jointed of wood of all kinds; firewood, handle, heading, stave, and shingle bolts, hop poles, fence posts, railroad ties; hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks, wagon, oar, gun, heading and all like blocks or sticks rough hewn, or sawed only; felloes of hickory wood, rough sawn to shape only, or rough sawn and bent to shape, not planed, smoothed or otherwise manufactured; hickory billets and hickory lumber, sawn to shape for spokes of wheels, but not further manufactured; hickory spokes, rough turned, not tenoned mitred, throated, faced, sized, cut to length, round tenoned or polished; shingles of wood; the wood of the persimmon and dogwood trees; and logs and round unmanufactured timber, ship timber or ship planking, not specially enumerated or provided for in the Customs Tariff .
Export and Import Permits Act — E-19 1
Short title 1 This Act may be cited as the Export and Import Permits Act . R.S., c. E-17, s. 1
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Area Control List means a list of countries established under section 4; ( liste des pays visés )
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Automatic Firearms Country Control List means a list of countries established under section 4.1; ( liste des pays désignés (armes automatiques) )
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broker means to arrange or negotiate a transaction that relates to the movement of goods or technology included in a Brokering Control List from a foreign country to another foreign country, including a transaction referred to in subsection (1.1); ( courtage )
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Brokering Control List means a list of goods and technology established under section 4.11; ( liste des marchandises de courtage contrôlé )
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CCFTA has the same meaning as Agreement in subsection 2(1) of the Canada-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act ; ( ALÉCC )
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CCRFTA has the same meaning as Agreement in subsection 2(1) of the Canada — Costa Rica Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act ; ( ALÉCCR )
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CETA has the same meaning as Agreement in section 2 of the Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Implementation Act ; ( AÉCG )
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CHFTA has the same meaning as Agreement in section 2 of the Canada–Honduras Economic Growth and Prosperity Act ; ( ALÉCH )
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Chile has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Tariff ; ( Chili )
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CIFTA has the same meaning as Agreement in subsection 2(1) of the Canada-Israel Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act ; ( ALÉCI )
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Colombia has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Tariff ; ( Colombie )
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Costa Rica has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Tariff ; ( Costa Rica )
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CPTPP has the same meaning as Agreement in section 2 of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership Implementation Act ; ( PTPGP )
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CPTPP country has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Tariff ; ( pays PTPGP )
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CUKTCA has the meaning assigned by the definition Agreement in section 2 of the Canada–United Kingdom Trade Continuity Agreement Implementation Act ; ( ACCCRU )
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CUKTCA beneficiary has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Tariff ; ( bénéficiaire de l’ACCCRU )
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CUSMA has the meaning assigned by the definition Agreement in section 2 of the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement Implementation Act ; ( ACEUM )
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CUSMA country means a country that is a party to CUSMA; ( pays ACEUM )
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data means representations, in any form, of information or concepts; ( données )
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EU country or other CETA beneficiary has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Tariff ; ( pays de l’Union européenne ou autre bénéficiaire de l’AÉCG )
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export allocation means an export allocation issued under paragraph 6.2(2)(b) or 6.3(3)(b); ( autorisation d’exportation )
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Export Control List means a list of goods and technology established under section 3; ( liste des marchandises d’exportation contrôlée )
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foreign country means a country other than Canada; ( pays étranger )
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Free Trade Agreement [Repealed, 1997, c. 14, s. 70]
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free trade partner means (a) a CUSMA country, (a.1) an EU country or other CETA beneficiary, (a.2) CPTPP country, (b) Chile, (c) Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary, or (d) a CUKTCA beneficiary; ( partenaire de libre-échange )
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goods imported from a NAFTA country [Repealed, 1997, c. 14, s. 70]
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goods imported from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary [Repealed, 1997, c. 36, s. 207]
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Honduras has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Tariff ; ( Honduras )
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import allocation means an import allocation issued under paragraph 6.2(2)(b); ( autorisation d’importation )
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Import Control List means a list of goods established under section 5; ( liste des marchandises d’importation contrôlée )
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imported from Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary has the meaning assigned by regulations made under section 52 of the Customs Tariff ; ( importé d’Israël ou d’un autre bénéficiaire de l’ALÉCI )
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Israel or another CIFTA beneficiary has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Tariff ; ( Israël ou autre bénéficiaire de l’ALÉCI )
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Minister means such member of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada as is designated by the Governor in Council as the Minister for the purposes of this Act; ( ministre )
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NAFTA country [Repealed, 2020, c. 1, s. 40]
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organization has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Criminal Code ; ( organisation )
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Panama has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Tariff ; ( Panama )
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Peru has the same meaning as in subsection 2(1) of the Customs Tariff ; ( Pérou )
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record means any material on which data are recorded or marked and which is capable of being read or understood by a person or a computer system or other device; ( registre )
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resident of Canada means, in the case of a natural person, a person who ordinarily resides in Canada and, in the case of a corporation, a corporation having its head office in Canada or operating a branch office in Canada; ( résident du Canada )
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softwood lumber agreement means the Softwood Lumber Agreement between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America signed on September 12, 2006 and amended on October 12, 2006, and includes any rectifications made to it before its ratification by Canada; ( accord sur le bois d’oeuvre )
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technology includes technical data, technical assistance and information necessary for the development, production or use of an article included in an Export Control List or a Brokering Control List; ( technologie )
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transfer means, in relation to technology, to dispose of it or disclose its content in any manner from a place in Canada to a place outside Canada; ( transfert )
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World Trade Organization Agreement has the same meaning as the word Agreement in subsection 2(1) of the World Trade Organization Agreement Implementation Act . ( Accord sur l’Organisation mondiale du commerce )