Family Orders and Agreements Enforcement Assistance Act

Marginal note:Request to information bank directors

• 17 (1) On the receipt of an application under this Part, the Minister shall immediately transmit a search request to the information bank directors.

• Marginal note:Request by Minister

  (2) On the Minister’s own initiative and for a purpose described in subsection (3), the Minister may transmit a search request to the information bank directors in order to release the information prescribed by the regulations to the Minister.

• Marginal note:Purposes

  (3) A request may be made

  • (a) to locate a person named in a request for assistance made under a convention that is prescribed by the regulations for the purpose of this paragraph; or

  • (b) to locate a person named in an application made under a convention that is prescribed by the regulations for the purpose of this paragraph.

• Marginal note:Search of information banks

  (4) On the receipt of a search request, the information bank directors shall, in accordance with the regulations, cause their designated information banks to be searched immediately and then periodically during the 12-month period following the receipt of the request.