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IRPRPART 4 ProceduresDIVISION 3 Conduct of Examination
r.31

Public health

🍁 In Simple Terms

Before an officer can say your health is a danger to public health, three things have to be weighed: what the doctor or laboratory actually reported, how communicable the condition is, and what it could do to people already living here. A diagnosis on its own is not the test. The question is transmission and consequence.

Affects: Foreign nationals and permanent residents in Canada
Legal Text: IRPR Regulation 31

31 Before opining whether a foreign national’s health condition is likely to be a danger to public health, an officer who is assessing the foreign national’s health condition shall consider (a)any report made by a health practitioner or medical laboratory with respect to the foreign national; (b)the communicability of any disease that the foreign national is affected by or carries; and (c)the impact that the disease could have on other persons living in Canada.

In Practice
Official Source: Justice Canada: IRPR r. 31 (authoritative, may differ from this display)
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