Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act

Marginal note:Measures to reduce threats to the security of Canada

• 12.1 (1) If there are reasonable grounds to believe that a particular activity constitutes a threat to the security of Canada, the Service may take measures, within or outside Canada, to reduce the threat.

• Marginal note:Limits

  (2) The measures shall be reasonable and proportional in the circumstances, having regard to the nature of the threat, the nature of the measures and the reasonable availability of other means to reduce the threat.

• Marginal note:Warrant

  (3) The Service shall not take measures to reduce a threat to the security of Canada if those measures will contravene a right or freedom guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or will be contrary to other Canadian law, unless the Service is authorized to take them by a warrant issued under section 21.1.

• Marginal note:Clarification

  (4) For greater certainty, nothing in subsection (1) confers on the Service any law enforcement power.