Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 154, Number 51: Order Amending Schedule 2 to the Hazardous Products Act

December 19, 2020

Statutory authority
Hazardous Products Act

Sponsoring department
Department of Health

REGULATORY IMPACT ANALYSIS STATEMENT

For the Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement, see the Regulations Amending the Hazardous Products Regulations (GHS, Seventh Revised Edition).

PROPOSED REGULATORY TEXT

Notice is given that the Governor in Council, pursuant to paragraph 18(b) footnote a of the Hazardous Products Act footnote b, proposes to make the annexed Order Amending Schedule 2 to the Hazardous Products Act.

Interested persons may make representations concerning the proposed Order within 70 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 Lynn Berndt-Weis, Director, Workplace Hazardous Materials Bureau, Consumer and Hazardous Products Safety Directorate, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada, 269 Laurier Avenue West, Address Locator 4908B, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0K9 (email: hc.whmis-simdut.sc@canada.ca).

Ottawa, December 10, 2020

Julie Adair
Assistant Clerk of the Privy Council

Order Amending Schedule 2 to the Hazardous Products Act

Amendments

1 Item 3 of Schedule 2 to the Hazardous Products Act footnote 1 under the heading “Physical Hazard Classes” is replaced by the following:

3 Aerosols

2 Item 19 of Schedule 2 to the Act under the heading “Physical Hazard Classes” is repealed.

Coming into Force

3 This Order comes into force on the day on which the Regulations Amending the Hazardous Products Regulations (GHS, Seventh Revised Edition) come into force, but if it is registered after that day, it comes into force on the day on which it is registered.