Export and Import Permits Act

Marginal note:Regulations

12 The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) prescribing the information, certificates issued by a third party attesting to a softwood sawlog’s origin and undertakings to be furnished by applicants for permits, import allocations, export allocations, certificates or other authorizations under this Act, the procedure to be followed in applying for and issuing or granting permits, import allocations, export allocations, certificates or other authorizations, the duration of them, and the terms and conditions, including those with reference to shipping or other documents, on which permits, import allocations, export allocations, certificates or other authorizations may be issued or granted under this Act;

• (a.1) respecting the considerations that the Minister must take into account when deciding whether to issue an import allocation or export allocation or consent to its transfer;

• (a.2) specifying, for the purposes of subsection 7.3(2), considerations that the Minister shall take into consideration when deciding whether to issue an export permit under subsection 7(1) in respect of goods or technology included in the Export Control List;

• (a.3) specifying, for the purposes of subsection 7.3(2), considerations that the Minister shall take into consideration when deciding whether to issue a brokering permit under subsection 7.1(1) in respect of goods or technology included in a Brokering Control List;

• (b) respecting information to be supplied by persons and organizations that have been issued or granted permits, import allocations, export allocations, certificates or other authorizations under this Act and any other matter associated with their use;

• (b.1) respecting information to be supplied to specified persons or specified government entities, including foreign government entities, by persons who export goods expressly excluded from the Export Control List;

• (c) respecting the issue of, and conditions or requirements applicable to, general permits or general certificates;

• (c.01) respecting export charges referred to in subsection 6.2(5);

• (c.02) respecting the considerations that the Minister must take into account when deciding whether to issue a certificate under section 9.2;

• (c.1) providing for considerations to be taken into account by the Minister in the issuance of certificates under section 9.1;

• (c.2) defining “origin” for the purposes of this Act or any provision thereof;

• (c.3) respecting the application, for the purposes of this Act or any provision thereof, of any regulations made under the Customs Tariff respecting the origin of goods;

• (d) respecting the certification, authorization or other control of any in-transit movement through any port or place of any goods or technology that is exported or transferred from Canada or of any goods that come into any port or place in Canada;

• (e) exempting any person or organization, any goods or technology or any class of persons or organizations, goods or technology from the operation of any or all of the provisions of this Act;

• (e.1) specifying activities or classes of activities that do not constitute brokering for the purposes this Act; and

• (f) generally, for carrying out the purposes and provisions of this Act.