Certain Fees in Respect of the Issuance of Identity and Travel Documents (2023 Türkiye and Syria Earthquakes) Remission Order (SI/2025-118)

Marginal note:Definition of document

1 In this Order, document means any of the following:

• (a) a passport, as defined in section 2 of the Canadian Passport Order;

• (b) a certificate of citizenship, as defined in subsection 2(1) of the Citizenship Act;

• (c) a travel document issued to a permanent resident under subsection 31(3) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act;

• (d) an emergency travel document.

Marginal note:Remission

2 Remission is granted to any person who meets the conditions set out in section 3 of the fees paid or payable set out in any of the following provisions, in respect of a document:

• (a) paragraph 7(c) and items 9, 10 and 14 of the schedule to the Passport and Other Travel Document Services Fees Regulations;

• (b) item 6 of the schedule to the Citizenship Regulations;

• (c) section 4 of the Consular Services Fees Regulations;

• (d) section 315 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations.

Marginal note:Conditions

3 Remission is granted on condition that

• (a) at some time during the period beginning on March 29, 2023 and ending on January 3, 2024, the person, as a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada, was in an area in Türkiye or Syria affected by the earthquakes of February 6, 2023 and was required to travel on an urgent basis as a result of the earthquakes; and

• (b) during the period referred to in paragraph (a), the person, or a person acting on their behalf, submitted an application for the issuance of the document.