Vol. 143, No. 25 — June 20, 2009

Regulations Amending the Hazardous Products (Toys) Regulations

Statutory authority

Hazardous Products Act

Sponsoring department

Department of Health

REGULATORY IMPACT
ANALYSIS STATEMENT

For the Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement, see Phthalates Regulations.

PROPOSED REGULATORY TEXT

Notice is hereby given that the Governor in Council, pursuant to section 5 (see footnote a) of the Hazardous Products Act (see footnote b), proposes to make the annexed Regulations Amending the Hazardous Products (Toys) Regulations.

Interested persons may make representations concerning the proposed Regulations within 75 days after the date of publication of this notice. All such representations must cite the Canada Gazette, Part I, and the date of publication of this notice, and be addressed to Mary Korpan, Project Officer, Chemistry and Flammability Division, Consumer Product Safety Bureau, Department of Health, Address Locator: 3504D, 123 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9 (fax: 613-952-9138; e-mail: mary_korpan@hc-sc.gc.ca).

Ottawa, June 11, 2009

JURICA ČAPKUN
Acting Assistant Clerk of the Privy Council

REGULATIONS AMENDING THE HAZARDOUS PRODUCTS (TOYS) REGULATIONS

AMENDMENT

1. Subsection 12(2) of the Hazardous Products (Toys) Regulations (see footnote 1) is replaced by the following:

(2) A substance, other than a heavy metal, a compound of a heavy metal, a substance set out in item 8 or 9 of Part I of Schedule I to the Act or a phthalate referred to in the Phthalates Regulations, may, subject to sections 10 and 11, be present in a plastic material referred to in subsection (1) in the amount of one per cent or less.

COMING INTO FORCE

2. These Regulations come into force on the day on which they are registered.

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Footnote a
S.C. 2004, c. 9, s. 2

Footnote b
R.S., c. H-3

Footnote 1
C.R.C., c. 931

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