Canada Hazardous Products (Toys) Regulations

Hazardous Products (Toys) Regulations

C.R.C., c. 931

HAZARDOUS PRODUCTS ACT

Hazardous Products (Toys) Regulations

REGULATIONS RESPECTING THE ADVERTISING, SALE AND IMPORTATION OF HAZARDOUS PRODUCTS (TOYS)

SHORT TITLE

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Hazardous Products (Toys) Regulations.

INTERPRETATION

2. In these Regulations,

"Act" means the Hazardous Products Act; ( Loi )

"soft toy" includes a stuffed toy, a pliable rubber toy and a pliable plastic toy. ( jouet mou )

GENERAL

3. (1) A person may advertise, sell or import into Canada a product included in any of items 13 to 20 of Part II of Schedule I to the Act only if that product meets the requirements of these Regulations.

(2) Any written statement or warning or other written information required by these Regulations shall appear in both the English and French languages.

SOR/91-267, s. 1.

PACKAGING

4. (1) A flexible film bag used to package any product described in paragraph 13(a) of Part II of Schedule

I to the Act shall meet the following requirements:

(a) the opening of the bag shall be less than 14 inches in circumference; or

(b) the bag shall

(i) be made from film that is at least 0.75 ml thick, and

(ii) have printed legibly on it the following warning:

―PLASTIC BAGS C AN BE DANGEROUS. TO AVOID DANGER OF SUFFOCATION KEEP THIS BAG AWAY FROM BABIES AND CHILDREN.‖

(2) The warning set out in paragraph (1)(b) may be expressed in different words if those words convey clearly the same warning.

SOR/91-267, s. 2.

ELECTRICAL HAZARDS

5. Every product described in paragraph 13(b) of Part II of Schedule I to the Act shall meet the requirements applicable to it that are set out in Canadian Standards Association Standard C22.2 No. 149-1972, entitled Electrically Operated Toys.

SOR/78-393, s. 1; SOR/91-267, s. 3.

6. Every wood-burning electric tool included in paragraph 13(b) of Part II of Schedule I to the Act shall meet the requirements applicable to it that are set out in Canadian Standards Association Standard

C22.2 No. 122-M1989, entitled Hand-Held Electrically Heated Tools.

SOR/91-267, s. 3.

MECHANICAL HAZARDS

7. No product included in paragraph 13(c) of Part II of Schedule I to the Act shall have a component or part, other than a component or part constructed entirely of soft textile fibre material, that

(a) is separable;

(b) may become detached with reasonably foreseeable use; and

(c) can be totally enclosed in the small parts cylinder described in Schedule VIII.

SOR/91-267, s. 4; SOR/2004-65, s. 3.

8. Every product described in

(a) paragraph 13(d) of Part II of Schedule I to the Act shall have all exposed metal edges folded back

or sprayed with or dipped in paint or otherwise treated so that all sharpness and burrs are eliminated;

(b) paragraph 13(e) of Part II of that Schedule shall have all ends of wire covered, turned in or turned

back so that no sharp ends become exposed with reasonably foreseeable use;

(c) paragraph 13(f) of Part II of that Schedule shall have all of its plastic parts that would, on breaking,

expose sharp edges,

(i) made sufficiently thick to resist breakage through reasonably foreseeable use, or