Customs Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. 1 (2nd Supp.))

Act current to 2013-05-20 and last amended on 2013-04-01. Previous Versions

Marginal note:Failure to export

96. Where goods are reported under section 95 and not duly exported, the person who reported them shall forthwith report the failure to export them to an officer at a customs office.

Marginal note:Security

97. In such circumstances as may be prescribed, goods that are transported within Canada after they have been reported under section 95 shall be transported subject to such conditions and subject to such bonds or other security as may be prescribed.

97.01 [Repealed, 1997, c. 14, s. 44]

Marginal note:Certificate of Origin of goods exported to a free trade partner

  • 97.1 (1) Every exporter of goods to a free trade partner for which preferential tariff treatment under a free trade agreement will be claimed in accordance with the laws of that free trade partner shall certify in writing in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed information that goods exported or to be exported from Canada to that free trade partner meet the rules of origin set out in, or contemplated by, the applicable free trade agreement and, if the exporter is not the producer of the goods, the certificate shall be completed and signed by the exporter on the basis of the prescribed criteria.

  • Marginal note:Provision of copy of Certificate of Origin

    (2) Every exporter or producer of goods who, for the purpose of enabling any person to comply with the applicable laws relating to customs of a free trade partner, completes and signs a certificate in accordance with subsection (1) shall, at the request of an officer, provide the officer with a copy of the certificate.

  • Marginal note:Notification of correct information

    (3) A person who has completed and signed a certificate in accordance with subsection (1) and who has reason to believe that it contains incorrect information shall immediately notify all persons to whom the certificate was given of the correct information.

  • 1988, c. 65, s. 78;
  • 1997, c. 14, s. 44;
  • 2001, c. 25, s. 56(F).

97.11 [Repealed, 1997, c. 14, s. 44]

Marginal note:Exporters’ or producers’ records

  • 97.2 (1) Every person who exports goods or causes them to be exported for sale or for any industrial, occupational, commercial, institutional or other like use or any other use that may be prescribed, and every other person who has completed and signed a certificate in accordance with subsection 97.1(1), shall keep at the person’s place of business in Canada or at any other place that may be designated by the Minister any records in respect of those goods in the manner and for the period that may be prescribed and shall, if an officer requests, make them available to the officer, within the time specified by the officer, and answer any questions asked by the officer in respect of the records.

  • Marginal note:Idem

    (2) Subsection 40(2) and sections 42 and 43 apply, with such modifications as the circumstances require, to a person required to keep records pursuant to subsection (1).

  • 1988, c. 65, s. 78;
  • 1993, c. 44, s. 104;
  • 1996, c. 33, s. 38;
  • 1997, c. 14, s. 45;
  • 2001, c. 25, s. 57.