Immigration and Refugee Protection Act

Marginal note:Regulations

32 The regulations may provide for any matter relating to the application of sections 27 to 31, may define, for the purposes of this Act, the terms used in those sections, and may include provisions respecting

• (a) classes of temporary residents, such as students and workers;

• (b) selection criteria for each class of foreign national and for their family members, and the procedures for evaluating all or some of those criteria;

• (c) anything referred to in paragraph (b) for which a decision or recommendation may or must be made by a designated person, institution or organization;

• (d) the conditions that must or may be imposed, varied or cancelled, individually or by class, on permanent residents and foreign nationals, including conditions respecting work or study;

• (d.1) in relation to the authorization of a foreign national to work in Canada — including in relation to a work permit — the requirements that may or must be imposed on the employer in question, or that may or must be varied or cancelled;

• (d.2) the power to inspect, for the purpose of verifying compliance with the requirements imposed on an employer in relation to the work permit of a foreign national that authorizes the foreign national to work in Canada temporarily;

• (d.3) the consequences of a failure to comply with the requirements referred to in paragraph (d.2);

• (e) the residency obligation under section 28, including rules for calculating applicable days and periods; and

• (f) the circumstances in which a document indicating status or a travel document may or must be issued, renewed or revoked.