Postal Services Resumption and Continuation Act (S.C. 2018, c. 25)

Enforcement

Marginal note:Individuals

• 15 (1) An individual who contravenes any provision of this Act is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable, for each day or part of a day during which the offence continues, to a fine of not more than

  • (a) $50,000, if the individual was acting in the capacity of an officer or representative of the employer or the union when the offence was committed; or

  • (b) $1,000, in any other case.

• Marginal note:Employer or union

  (2) If the employer or the union contravenes any provision of this Act, it is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and is liable, for each day or part of a day during which the offence continues, to a fine of not more than $100,000.

• Marginal note:No imprisonment

  (3) Despite subsection 787(2) of the Criminal Code, no term of imprisonment is to be imposed in default of payment of a fine that is imposed under subsection (1) or (2).

• Marginal note:Recovery of fines

  (4) If a person is convicted of an offence under subsection (1) or (2) and the fine that is imposed is not paid when required, the prosecutor may, by filing the conviction, enter as a judgment the amount of the fine and costs, if any, in a superior court of the province in which the trial was held, and the judgment is enforceable against the person in the same manner as if it were a judgment rendered against the person in that court in civil proceedings.

Coming into Force

Marginal note:Noon of day after royal assent

16 This Act comes into force at noon Eastern Standard Time on the day after the day on which it receives royal assent.