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Customs Act

Version of section 99.3 from 2009-06-11 to 2024-04-01:


Marginal note:Non-intrusive examination of goods

  •  (1) An officer may, in accordance with the regulations and without individualized suspicion, conduct a non-intrusive examination of goods in the custody or possession of a person who is in or is leaving a customs controlled area.

  • Marginal note:Other examination of goods

    (2) An officer may examine any goods in the custody or possession of a person who is in or is leaving a customs controlled area and open or cause to be opened any baggage, package or container and take samples of the goods in reasonable amounts, if the officer suspects on reasonable grounds that this Act or any other Act of Parliament administered or enforced by the officer or any regulations made under it have been or might be contravened in respect of the goods.

  • Marginal note:Examination of abandoned goods

    (3) An officer may, at any time, open or cause to be opened, examine and detain any goods, baggage, package or container that is found abandoned or that is not in the possession of any person in a customs controlled area.

  • 2001, c. 25, s. 60
  • 2009, c. 10, s. 11

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