加拿大難民程式/140 - 扣押
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《移民和難民保護法》第 140 條規定
Seizure 140 (1) An officer may seize and hold any means of transportation, document or other thing if the officer believes on reasonable grounds that it was fraudulently or improperly obtained or used or that the seizure is necessary to prevent its fraudulent or improper use or to carry out the purposes of this Act. Interpretation (2) Despite subsection 42(2) of the Canada Post Corporation Act, a thing or document that is detained under the Customs Act and seized by an officer is not in the course of post for the purposes of the Canada Post Corporation Act. Regulations (3) The regulations may provide for any matter relating to the application of this section and may include provisions respecting the deposit of security as a guarantee to replace things that have been seized or that might otherwise be seized, and the return to their lawful owner, and the disposition, of things that have been seized.
該法第 140 條規定，如果滿足列出的條件，官員可以扣押和持有列出的物品。擁有該權力的官員是根據該法第 6 條由部長指定的官員：加拿大難民程式/4-6 - 授權。該權力也必須按照《權利和自由憲章》第 8 條行使，該條規定每個人都有權免受不合理的搜查或扣押：加拿大難民程式/權利和自由憲章#第 8 條：不合理的搜查或扣押。該部門及其工作人員未被指定用於本節目的目的。也就是說，根據《調查法》賦予他們的權力，成員有權傳喚任何證人出庭，並要求他們出示委員認為對他們被任命調查的事項進行全面調查所必需的任何檔案和物品：加拿大難民程式/成員權力#《調查法》第一部分。
如果官員有合理理由相信檔案是透過欺詐或不正當手段獲取或使用的，或者扣押該檔案是為防止其欺詐或不正當使用，或者為了執行該法第 140(1) 條規定的 IRPA 目的而必要的，部長指定的官員可以扣押並持有該檔案。該條未對可以扣押檔案的來源進行任何限制。因此，指定的移民官員可以行使該權力，扣押在該部門手中持有的一名申請人的檔案。