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IRPRPART 20 Transitional ProvisionsDIVISION 3 Enforcement
r.320

Inadmissibility — security grounds

🍁 In Simple Terms

People who were found inadmissible under specific provisions of the old Immigration Act — for security reasons, human rights violations, or related grounds — are treated as inadmissible on equivalent grounds under the new Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Their status as inadmissible persons carries forward.

Affects: Foreign nationals and permanent residents in Canada
Legal Text — IRPR Regulation 320

(1)320 (1) A person is inadmissible under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act on security grounds if, on the coming into force of this section, the person had been determined to be a member of an inadmissible class described in paragraph 19(1)(e), (f), (g) or (k) of the former Act.

(2.1)(2.1) For greater certainty, an opinion of the Minister under paragraph 19(1)(l) of the former Act continues as an opinion of the Minister under paragraph 35(1)(b) of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act .

(4)(4) A person is inadmissible under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act on grounds of criminality if, on the coming into force of this section, the person had been determined to be a member of an inadmissible class described in paragraph 19(2)(a), (a.1) or (b) of the former Act, or had been determined to be inadmissible on the basis of paragraph 27(1)(a.2) or (a.3) or (2)(d) of the former Act.

(7)(7) A person — other than an applicant described in section 7 of the former Regulations or section 4 of the Humanitarian Designated Classes Regulations who made an application for admission under the former Act — is inadmissible under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act on health grounds if, on the coming into force of this section, the person had been determined to be a member of the inadmissible class described in paragraph 19(1)(a) of the former Act.

(10)(10) A person is inadmissible under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act for failing to comply with that Act if, on the coming into force of this section, the person had been determined to be a member of an inadmissible class described in paragraph 19(1)(h) or (i) or (2)(c) or (d) of the former Act, or had been determined to be inadmissible on the basis of paragraph 27(1)(b) or (2)(b), (e), (f), (h), (i) or (k) of the former Act.

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