If your entry examination at a port of entry happens outside of the port's normal service hours, you may be charged an examination fee, a set amount for the first four hours plus an additional charge for each hour or part of an hour after that. Who pays and how it's collected depends on whether you arrived by commercial transport or private vehicle.
(1)The following fees are payable for an examination for the purpose of entering Canada that is made outside the applicable service hours of the port of entry where the officer who conducts the examination is based: (a)a fee of $100 for the first four hours of examination; and (b)a fee of $30 for each additional hour or part of an hour of examination.
(2)The fees are payable at the time of the examination (a)if the transporter’s vehicle carrying the person to be examined arrives unscheduled at a port of entry outside service hours, by the transporter; and (b)in any other case, by the person who requests that the examination take place outside service hours.