Passport and Other Travel Document Services Fees Regulations (SOR/2012-253)

Marginal note:Same fees

10 For greater certainty, if a fee adjustment is made in accordance with these Regulations, the fees for a subsequent fiscal year in respect of which no adjustment is made remain the fees resulting from the last adjustment.

Remission

Marginal note:Remission

• 11 (1) Subject to subsection (2), a fee paid by a person for a service set out in paragraph 7(a) or (b) or item 8 of the schedule is to be remitted by the Minister to the person if the reason for travelling is the serious illness of the person or another individual, or the death of the other individual.

• Marginal note:Other conditions

  (2) The remission is to be given if the person

  • (a) makes a written request to the Minister for the remission within 180 days after the service is performed;

  • (b) provides a written statement to the Minister to the effect that

    • (i) the reason for the trip is their own serious illness or the serious illness or death of another individual, and

    • (ii) if the reason for the trip is the serious illness or death of another individual, the person has or has had a relationship with that individual; and

  • (c) provides an official document to the Minister from an appropriate authority attesting to the serious illness or death.

Transitional Provisions

12 [Repealed, SOR/2014-309, s. 4]

13 [Repealed, SOR/2014-309, s. 4]

Marginal note:Replacement of travel document without fee

• 14 (1) Despite items 2 and 6 of the schedule, if a person under one year of age has been issued a passport or other travel document that is valid for a period of three years or less, that person may obtain, before the day on which the original document expires, another such document without paying a fee if the document to be replaced was issued on or before June 30, 2013 and is returned at the same time that the request for the new document is made.

• Marginal note:Ceases to have effect

  (2) Subsection (1) ceases to have effect on June 30, 2014.

Marginal note:No fee adjustment before April 1, 2016

15 There is to be no fee adjustment under sections 4 to 7 in respect of the fiscal years before April 1, 2016.

Consequential Amendment to the Passport Services Fees Regulations

16 [Amendment]

Repeal

17 [Repeal]

Coming into Force

Marginal note:July 1, 2013

• 18 (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4), these Regulations come into force on July 1, 2013.

• Marginal note:March 31, 2014

  (2) Subsections 2(2) and 2(4) and items 13 to 15 of the schedule come into force on March 31, 2014.

• Marginal note:Registration

  (3) Section 13 comes into force on the day on which these Regulations are registered.

• Marginal note:May 27, 2013

  (4) Section 16 comes into force on May 27, 2013.