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PART 4: Immigration and Refugee BoardImmigration Appeal Division
§176

Request

Request

🍁 In Simple Terms

The discipline process for appeal division members starts here. The Chairperson can ask the Minister to look at whether a member should face discipline for becoming unable to do the job through infirmity, for misconduct, for failing at the job, or for getting into a position incompatible with it.

Affects: Refugee claimants and protected persons
Legal Text: IRPA Section 176
Reasons

(2)The request is to be based on the reason that the member has become incapacitated from the proper execution of that office by reason of infirmity, has been guilty of misconduct, has failed in the proper execution of that office or has been placed, by conduct or otherwise, in a position that is incompatible with due execution of that office.

Amendment History (2)
2001, c. 27, s. 176
2010, c. 8, s. 30
In Practice
Official Source: Justice Canada: IRPA s. 176 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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