This regulation sets fees for requesting copies or certified copies of records, and allows extra charges in some cases.
Fees for Records Regulations Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of National Revenue, pursuant to subsection 108(4) of the Customs Act*, is pleased hereby to make the annexed Regulations prescribing the circumstances in which fees may be charged for making or certifying copies of documents pursuant to section 108 of the Customs Act* and the amount of such fees, effective on the coming into force of subsection 108(4) of the Customs Act*. S.C. 1986, c. 1 [Repealed, SOR/2009-113, s. 2] In these Regulations, Act means the Customs Act. The fees referred to in sections 4 and 5 are the fees payable by persons from whom any record is obtained for the purposes of the Act, or on whose behalf any record is given to an officer for the purposes of the Act, and for whom a service referred to in those sections is provided by an official under section 107 of the Act. A person referred to in section 3 who requests that a copy of a record be made shall pay an application fee of $5.00 at the time the request is made; and where applicable, a fee for reproduction of a record or part thereof to be calculated in accordance with the following: for photocopying a page, $0.20 per page, for microfiche duplication (non-silver), $0.40 per fiche, for 16 mm microfilm duplication (non-silver), $12.00 per 30.5 m roll, for 35 mm microfilm duplication (non-silver), $14.00 per 30.5 m roll, for microform to paper duplication, $0.25 per page, and for magnetic tape-to-tape duplication, $25.00 per 731.5 m reel. Where the record in respect of which a request is made pursuant to subsection (1) is a non-computerized record, an officer may require, in addition to the application fee prescribed by paragraph (1)(a), payment of a fee in the amount of $2.50 per person for each quarter hour in excess of five hours that is spent by the person on searching for the record and on preparation. Where a copy of the record in respect of which a request is made pursuant to subsection (1) is produced from a machine readable record, an officer may require, in addition to any other fees prescribed in this section, payment of a fee for the cost of production and programming calculated in accordance with the following: $16.50 per minute for the cost of the central processor and all locally attached devices; and $5.00 per person for each quarter hour that is spent by that person on programming a computer. A person referred to in section 3 who requests that a record be certified shall pay an application fee of $5.00 unless that person has paid an application fee pursuant to paragraph 4(1)(a).