Citizenship Act
Sections and provisions with full text and the judgments that cite each one.
Section 27.21 — Regulations — electronic means
The Minister may make regulations respecting the application of section 28.2 and paragraph 28.3(b), including regulations respecting the technology or format to be used, or the standards,…
Section 27.3 — Service Fees Act
The Service Fees Act does not apply in respect of a fee for services provided in the administration of this Act.
Section 28 — Powers of Minister
The Minister may prescribe the forms of applications, certificates and other documents required for the purposes of this Act.
Section 28.1 — Sunset — after five years
Section 14 expires five years after the day on which subsection 22.1(3) comes into force unless, before then, the Minister extends its application for up to five years. The Minister may, before the…
Section 28.2 — Power — Minister
The Minister may administer and enforce this Act using electronic means. A citizenship judge and the Registrar of Canadian Citizenship may, in the exercise of their powers and performance of their…
Section 28.3 — Conditions for electronic version
If any provision of this Act or the regulations requires a signature or any information or evidence to be provided, an application, request, decision or determination to be made, a notice to be given…
Section 28.4 — For greater certainty
For greater certainty, if any provision of this Act or the regulations authorizes the Minister to require that any document, information or evidence be provided, the Minister is not precluded by this…
Section 29 — Definition of document of citizenship
For the purposes of this section, document of citizenship means a certificate of citizenship, a document provided under paragraph 12(1)(b) or (2)(b), a certificate of naturalization or a certificate…
Section 29.1 — Contravention of subsection 21.1(1)
A person who commits an offence under subsection 21.1(1) is liable on conviction on indictment, to a fine of not more than $200,000 or to imprisonment for a term of not more than two years, or to…
Section 29.2 — Counselling misrepresentation
Every person commits an offence who knowingly counsels, induces, aids or abets or attempts to counsel, induce, aid or abet any person to directly or indirectly misrepresent or withhold material…
Section 30 — Where offence is committed outside Canada
An act or omission that would, if committed in Canada, be an offence under this Act is, if committed outside Canada, an offence under this Act. Where a person has committed outside Canada an act or…
Section 31 — Limitation period
Any proceedings in respect of an offence under this Act or the regulations that is punishable on summary conviction may be instituted at any time within but not later than 10 years after the time…
Section 32 — Citizen of the Commonwealth
Every person who, under an enactment of a Commonwealth country other than Canada, is a citizen or national of that country has in Canada the status of a citizen of the Commonwealth. For the purposes…
Section 33 — Citizen of Ireland
Any law of Canada and any regulation made thereunder shall, unless it otherwise provides, have effect in relation to a citizen of Ireland who is not a citizen of the Commonwealth in like manner as it…
Section 34 — Rights
Subject to section 35, real and personal property of every description may be taken, acquired, held and disposed of by a person who is not a citizen in the same manner in all respects as by a…
Section 35 — Authority to prohibit or restrict acquisitions of property in a province by non-Canadians
Subject to subsection (3), the Lieutenant Governor in Council of a province or such other person or authority in the province as is designated by the Lieutenant Governor in Council thereof is…
Section 36 — Offences and punishment
Every person who fails to comply with any prohibition, annulment or restriction made pursuant to subsection 35(1) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding ten…
Section 37 — Coming into force
Sections 35 and 36 shall come into force in any of the Provinces of Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland and Labrador or…
Section 38 — Disabilities
Sections 34 and 35 do not operate so as to qualify any person for any office or for any municipal, parliamentary or other franchise; qualify any person to be the owner of a Canadian ship; qualify any…
Section 39 — Trial
A person who is not a citizen is triable at law in the same manner as if the person were a citizen.