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1st Session, 36th Parliament,
46 Elizabeth II, 1997
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The House of Commons of Canada
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BILL C-254
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An Act to amend the Immigration Act
(reimbursement)
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| R.S., c. I-2;
R.S., c. 31 (1st
Supp.), cc. 10,
46 (2nd
Supp.), c. 30
(3rd Supp.),
cc. 1, 28, 29,
30 (4th
Supp.); 1990,
cc. 8, 16, 17,
38, 44; 1992,
cc. 1, 47, 49,
51; 1993, c.
28; 1994, cc.
26, 31; 1995,
cc. 5, 15;
1996, cc. 8,
11, 16, 19;
1997, c. 22
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Her Majesty, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate and House of Commons
of Canada, enacts as follows:
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1. The portion after paragraph (b) of the
definition ``Convention refugee'' in section
2 of the Immigration Act is replaced by the
following:
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but does not include any person to whom the
Convention does not apply pursuant to section
E or F of Article 1 thereof, which sections are
set out in Schedule I to this Act;
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2. The Act is amended by adding the
following after section 119:
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Reimbursement
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Reimburse-
ment by the
Minister
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119.1 (1) On application to the Minister in
writing, the Minister shall reimburse the fee
paid for the right-of-landing where
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(a) the applicant or another on behalf of the
applicant has paid the fee for the
right-of-landing;
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(b) the applicant has received a certificate
of citizenship within the meaning of the
Citizenship Act; and
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(c) the applicant has satisfied the Minister
that, from the day the applicant was granted
landing until the day the applicant received
the certificate of citizenship, the applicant
resided elsewhere than in a census
metropolitan area.
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| Definition of
``census
metropolitan
area''
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(2) For the purposes of subsection (1),
``census metropolitan area'' means any area
designated as such by Statistics Canada and
appearing in Schedule II.
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| Amending
Schedule II
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(3) The Governor in Council may, by order,
add a census metropolitan area to the list in
Schedule II or remove a census metropolitan
area from the list.
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3. The schedule to the Act is renumbered
as Schedule I and the Act is amended by
adding the following:
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Schedule II
(Subsection 119.1(2))
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1. Toronto
2. Montreal
3. Vancouver
4. Ottawa-Hull
5. Edmonton
6. Calgary
7. Quebec
8. Winnipeg
9. Hamilton
10. London
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