Accordingly, in September 1901, Captain Edward Inglefield was
appointed temporarily to the NID and tasked with fleshing out the details of
an old Admiralty "plan" for the protection of trade that had been sketched
out twenty-five years earlier and had been accumulating dust ever
since.
The enforcement is carried out through the copyright inspectors who
are appointed under the Copyright Act and they have the powers to search and
arrest, as well as carry out examinations and inquiries.
In April 1994, he was appointed acting director general of the
Canadian Astronaut Program.