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Status of Payment | Effect on Services | Applicable Refund |
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No payment with submission | Submission is returned to notifier. | Not applicable |
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All services are suspended until full payment is received | Not applicable |
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Services are rendered for fully paid requests; other services are suspended until payment is received | Not applicable |
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All services are suspended until payment is received. | Not applicable |
Exact Payment | Services are rendered. | Payments are not refundable once full services are rendered. |
Overpayment | Services are rendered. | Overpayment is refunded. |
Valid withdrawn requests | ||
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Services are terminated. | Full payment is refunded. |
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Services are terminated. | A portion of applicable fees are retained. |
Unnecessary services | Submission is returned to notifier. | Full payment is refunded. |
Previous notifications made before January 1, 2003 | Services are rendered. | Payment corresponding to previous schedules is refunded. |
If the exact payment for any service has been received, the service will be rendered.
If payment is not received with the submission, the services will not be rendered and the submission will be returned to the notifier (notice of rejection).
If the payment is insufficient to cover the service(s) associated with a single substance, all services, including assessments of notifications, will be suspended until full payment is received.
Example: A submission contains a notification, a masked name application, and a payment covering the notification only. Evaluation of the notification and masked name application will be suspended until the full payment for the masked name application is received.
Note: Payment for a Masked Name application can be made with any notification regardless of the Schedule being submitted, and it is only required to be paid once per substance per notifier. However, it is only necessary to ensure that payment for the Masked Name application is made, or has been made, when submitting what will be the final notification for a substance, that is, a Schedule II (where the substance is on the NDSL), a Schedule III, a Schedule VI (final), a Schedule VII or a Schedule VIII.
If the submission clearly identifies the fees associated with each substance, only the services for which full payment was received will be rendered. Other services will be suspended until full payment is received.
Example: A submission contains separate notifications for substances A and B, an exact payment for one notification, and a fee form clearly indicating that the payment applies to substance A. The service for substance A will be rendered. The service for substance B will be suspended until the full payment is received.
If one payment is sent for multiple services without clearly identifying the fees associated with each substance, all services will be suspended until full payment is received.
Example: A submission contains separate notifications for two different substances and a payment for only one notification. Since it is not clear that the payment applies to a specific notification, all services will be suspended until the full payment is received or until receipt of the fee form indicating to which notification the fees apply.
If the payment exceeds the fee prescribed by the NSFR, the service will be rendered and the overpayment will be refunded. Overpayments will not be retained "on account" as deposits for future notifications or other services.
If the notifier withdraws a notification or other service request before any service has been rendered, a full refund will be issued. If the notifier withdraws its notification or other service and partial services have been rendered, a portion of the fee prescribed by the NSFR will be retained. If the notifier withdraws a notification but full services have already been rendered, no refund will be issued.
If a notification is not required by the NSNR (e.g. if the substance is already listed on the DSL), the service will not be rendered and the submission will be returned to the notifier along with a full refund.
"Subsequent" notification fees consist of the amount set out in the applicable schedule of the NSFR, less any amount previously paid for the assessment of that substance under any previous schedules. If the previous schedules were notified before January 1, 2003 when no fees were applicable, the notifier must pay the full amount for initial fees or final fees as prescribed in the NSFR for the subsequent notification.
However, to respect the intent of the regulations, previous notifications will be considered when determining refunds. When full payment is made for a notification and previous schedules were notified before January 1, 2003, the fees corresponding to the previously notified schedules will be refunded.
In these cases, refunds will only be issued upon written request from notifiers. To allow this type of refund, notifiers should clearly identify the New Substance Notification (NSN) numbers of any previous notifications on the current submission. The NSN number is a number assigned to a specific file/notification package in order to track it through the notification, assessment and post-assessment process.
Example: A submission contains a Schedule III notification and a payment of $3,500, along with a request for a refund associated with previous Schedule 1 and Schedule 2 notifications that were made before January 1, 2003. A total of $2,200 will be refunded, which corresponds to the fees for the previously notified schedules ($200 for Schedule I and $2,000 for Schedule II).
Notifications received prior to January 1, 2003 and for which prescribed information was missing are subject to the NSFR upon submission of missing information.
Disclaimer: Although care has been taken to ensure that the information found on this website accurately reflects the requirements prescribed, you are advised that, should any inconsistencies be found, the legal documents, printed in the Canada Gazette, will prevail. |
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