Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

Marginal note:Designation

• 217 (1) The Minister may designate as enforcement officers or analysts for the purposes of this Act, or any provision of this Act,

  • (a) persons or classes of persons who, in the Minister’s opinion, are qualified to be so designated; and

  • (b) with the approval of a government, persons or classes of persons employed by the government in the administration of a law respecting the protection of the environment.

• Marginal note:Production of certificate of designation

  (2) Every enforcement officer or analyst shall be furnished with a certificate of designation as an enforcement officer or analyst, as the case may be, and on entering any place under section 218 or 220, as the case may be, shall, if so requested, produce the certificate to the person in charge of the place.

• Marginal note:Powers of enforcement officers

  (3) For the purposes of this Act and the regulations, enforcement officers have all the powers of a peace officer, but the Minister may specify limits on those powers when designating any person or class of persons.

• Marginal note:Powers in exclusive economic zone

  (4) Every power — including arrest, entry, search and seizure — that may be exercised in Canada in respect of an offence under this Act or the Criminal Code may, in respect of an offence arising out of a contravention of Division 3 of Part 7 or of any regulation made under that Division, or in respect of an offence under the Criminal Code that is committed in the course of enforcement of this Act, be exercised in an area of the sea referred to in paragraph 122(2)(c) if the offence was committed in that area of the sea.

• Marginal note:Exercising powers in cases of hot pursuit

  (5) The powers referred to in subsection (4) may be exercised in an area of the sea referred to in paragraph 122(2)(g) if hot pursuit has been commenced in Canada or in an area of the sea referred to in any of paragraphs 122(2)(a) to (e) and (g).

• Marginal note:When consent of Attorney General of Canada required

  (6) The powers referred to in subsection (4) may not be exercised under that subsection or subsection (5) in relation to a ship that is not a Canadian ship, or to a foreign national who is on board such a ship, without the consent of the Attorney General of Canada.