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IRPRPART 20 Transitional ProvisionsDIVISION 3 Enforcement
r.319

Removal order

🍁 In Simple Terms

A removal order from the old Act that had not been carried out kept running, now under the current Act. If the removal had been stayed under the old rules, that stay continued until whichever of the current stay-ending events came first. Two groups lost the continued stay: people found to have no credible basis for a refugee claim, and people removable for serious criminality. Anyone already outside Canada after an executed removal fell under the current return-authorization rules.

Affects: Foreign nationals and permanent residents in Canada
Legal Text: IRPR Regulation 319
Conditional removal order

(4)A conditional removal order made under the former Act continues in force and is subject to subsection 49(2) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

Executed removal order

(5)Section 52 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act applies to a person who immediately before the coming into force of this section was outside Canada after a removal order was executed against them.

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