Cultural Property Export and Import Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-51)

Act current to 2013-04-29 and last amended on 2005-12-12. Previous Versions

Advisers

Marginal note:Expert advice

  • 22. (1) The Review Board may call on any person who has professional, technical or other special knowledge to assist it in any matter in an advisory capacity.

  • Marginal note:Valuation experts

    (2) The Minister, on the request of the Review Board, may appoint and fix the remuneration of valuation experts to assist the Review Board in making determinations pursuant to section 30 respecting fair cash offers to purchase or pursuant to section 32 respecting the fair market value of objects disposed of, or proposed to be disposed of, to institutions or public authorities.

  • R.S., 1985, c. C-51, s. 22;
  • 1991, c. 49, s. 217.

Administration

Marginal note:Administrative services

23. The Minister shall provide administrative services to the Review Board.

  • 1974-75-76, c. 50, s. 20.

Rules and Procedure

Marginal note:Rules

24. The Review Board may make rules not inconsistent with this Act for the conduct of its proceedings and the performance of its duties and functions under this Act.

  • 1974-75-76, c. 50, s. 21.
Marginal note:Review Board may receive information

25. The Review Board may receive any information presented to it orally or in writing that it considers to be relevant to any matter before it and in so doing it is not bound by any legal or technical rules of evidence.

  • 1974-75-76, c. 50, s. 22.
Marginal note:Information given to applicant

26. The Review Board shall make the substance of any information received by it in respect of a matter before it known to the person who applied for an export permit in respect of the object to which the matter relates, or to the person, institution or public authority that applied for a determination under subsection 32(1), as the case may be, and, before the Review Board decides the matter, it shall give that person, institution or public authority an opportunity to make representations in respect of that information.

  • 1974-75-76, c. 50, s. 22.
Marginal note:Exclusion from hearing

27. The Review Board may exclude any person not directly interested in a matter being heard before it from the hearing unless, where the matter is in respect of an object in respect of which an application for an export permit has been made, the applicant for the permit requests that the hearing be held in public, in which case it shall be so held.

  • 1974-75-76, c. 50, s. 22.
Marginal note:Review Board shall dispose of matters informally and expeditiously

28. The Review Board shall dispose of any matter before it as informally and expeditiously as, in its opinion, the circumstances and considerations of fairness will permit.

  • 1974-75-76, c. 50, s. 22.