Arrive at a border crossing outside its service hours and someone gets billed for the officer's time: $100 for the first four hours and $30 for each additional hour or part of an hour. Who pays depends on how you arrived. If a carrier's vehicle turns up unscheduled outside service hours the carrier pays, and in every other case the person who asked for the after-hours examination pays. It is due at the time of the examination.
(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.