Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations

Marginal note:Fee — $275

• 315.2 (1) A fee of $275 is payable for the provision of services in relation to an opinion from the Department of Employment and Social Development that is requested by an employer or group of employers under subsection 203(2) for each offer of employment in respect of which the request is made.

• Marginal note:Exceptions

  (2) No fee is payable if the request is made in respect of an offer of employment that relates to

  • (a) work to be performed under an international agreement between Canada and one or more countries concerning seasonal agricultural workers; or

  • (b) any other work in the primary agriculture sector.

• Marginal note:Payment

  (3) The fee must be paid at the time the request is made.

• Marginal note:Primary agriculture sector

  (4) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b), work in the primary agriculture sector means, subject to subsection (5), work that is performed within the boundaries of a farm, nursery or greenhouse and involves

  • (a) the operation of agricultural machinery;

  • (b) the boarding, care, breeding, sanitation or other handling of animals, other than fish, for the purpose of obtaining animal products for market, or activities relating to the collection, handling and assessment of those products; or

  • (c) the planting, care, harvesting or preparation of crops, trees, sod or other plants for market.

• Marginal note:Exclusions

  (5) Work in the primary agriculture sector does not include work involving

  • (a) the activities of agronomists or agricultural economists;

  • (b) landscape architecture;

  • (c) the provision of feed lot services;

  • (d) the preparation of vegetable fibres for textile use;

  • (e) activities related to commercial hunting and trapping; or

  • (f) veterinary activities.