Export and Import Permits Act

Marginal note:Alteration of permits, etc.

• 10 (1) Subject to subsection (3), the Minister may amend, suspend, cancel or reinstate any permit, import allocation, certificate or other authorization issued or granted under this Act.

• Marginal note:Alteration of permits, etc.

  (2) If a permit has been issued under this Act to any person for the exportation or importation of goods that have been included on the Export Control List or the Import Control List solely for the purpose described in subsection 5(4.3), (5) or (6), 5.1(1), 5.2(1), (2) or (3) or 5.4(6), (7) or (8), and

  • (a) the person furnished, in or in connection with his application for the permit, information that was false or misleading in a material particular,

  • (b) the Minister has, subsequent to the issuance of the permit and on the application of the person, issued to the person under this Act another permit for the exportation or the importation of the same goods,

  • (c) the goods have, subsequent to the issuance of the permit, been included on the Export Control List or the Import Control List for a purpose other than that described in subsection 5(4.3), (5) or (6), 5.1(1), 5.2(1), (2) or (3) or 5.4(6), (7) or (8),

  • (d) it becomes necessary or desirable to correct an error in the permit, or

  • (e) the person agrees to the amendment, suspension or cancellation of the permit,

  the Minister may amend, suspend or cancel the permit, as is appropriate in the circumstances.

• Marginal note:Idem

  (3) Except as provided in subsection (2), the Minister shall not amend, suspend or cancel a permit that has been issued under this Act in the circumstances described in that subsection unless to do so would be compatible with the purpose of subsection 8(2) or section 8.1 or 8.2, namely, that permits to export or to import goods that have been included on the Export Control List or the Import Control List in those circumstances be issued as freely as possible to persons wishing to export or import those goods and with no more inconvenience to those persons than is necessary to achieve the purpose for which the goods were placed on that List.