Notice of Ways and Means Motion to introduce an Act to amend the Customs Tariff and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act
MINISTER OF FINANCE
That
it is expedient to introduce an Act to amend the Customs Tariff and the Canadian
International Trade Tribunal Act, the provisions of which are as
follows:
1997,
c. 36
Customs Tariff
1 (1) Subsections
55(5) and (6) of the Customs Tariff are
repealed.
(2) Section
55 of the Act is amended by adding the following after subsection
(4):
Prohibition against further
orders
(5) Subject to subsection (6), no order may be made
under subsection (1) with respect to goods that have already been the subject of
an order made under that subsection or subsection 5(3) of the Export
and Import Permits Act unless, after the expiry of the order and any
related orders made under subsection 5(3.2) or (4.1) of that Act or section 60
or subsection 63(1), there has elapsed a period equal to the greater of two
years and the total period during which the order or orders were in
effect.
Exception
(6) If an order made under subsection (1) was effective
with respect to goods for a period of 180 days or less, a further order may be
made under that subsection with respect to those goods if
(a) at least one year has elapsed since the previous
order took effect; and
(b) not more than two orders have been made with respect
to the goods under subsection (1) within the period of five years before the
further order takes effect.
R.S.,
c. 47 (4th Supp.)
Consequential Amendments to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal Act
1997,
c. 36, s. 197(3)
2 (1) Subsection
26(7) of the Canadian
International Trade Tribunal Act is replaced by the
following:
Time limit on inquiry
(7) If subsection 5(3.1) of the Export
and Import Permits Act prohibits the making of an order under subsection
5(3) of that Act in
respect of any goods during any period, the Tribunal may commence an inquiry
into a complaint under subsection (1) in respect of the goods no earlier than
180 days before the end of the period.
(2) Subsection
26(7) of the Act is replaced by the following:
Time limit on inquiry
(7) If subsection 55(5) of the Customs
Tariff or subsection 5(3.1) of the Export
and Import Permits Act prohibits the making of an order under subsection
55(1) of the Customs
Tariff or subsection 5(3) of the Export
and Import Permits Act in respect of any goods during any period, the
Tribunal may commence an inquiry into a complaint under subsection (1) in
respect of the goods no earlier than 180 days before the end of the
period.
Coming into Force
Second anniversary
3 Subsections
1(2) and 2(2)
come into force on the second anniversary of the day on which this Act receives
royal assent.
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