- INTERPRETATION
- APPLICATION
- GENERAL
- HEALTH WARNINGS
- HEALTH INFORMATION
- TOXIC EMISSIONS AND TOXIC CONSTITUENTS
- SLIDE AND SHELL PACKAGES
- CARTONS AND KITS
- COMING INTO FORCE
Tobacco Products Information Regulations
SOR/2000-272
TOBACCO ACT
Registration 2000-06-26
Tobacco Products Information Regulations
P.C. 2000-1039 2000-06-21
Whereas, pursuant to section 42.1 of the Tobacco Acta, the Minister of Health laid a copy of the proposed Tobacco Products Information Regulations, substantially in the annexed form, before the House of Commons on May 12, 2000 and the House of Commons concurred on June 8, 2000 in a report from the Standing Committee on Health approving the proposed Regulations;
aS.C. 1997, c. 13
Therefore, Her Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of Health, pursuant to sections 17 and 33 of the Tobacco Acta, hereby makes the annexed Tobacco Products Information Regulations.
INTERPRETATION
Definitions
1. The definitions in this section apply in these Regulations.
“Act”
« Loi »
“Act” means the Tobacco Act.
“brand”
« marque »
“brand” means all of the brand elements that as a whole are used by a manufacturer to identify to a consumer a tobacco product made by the manufacturer.
“carton”
« cartouche »
“carton” means a package intended to be sold to consumers and that contains two or more packages of a tobacco product, other than a tube, a filter or cigarette paper.
“cigar”
« cigare »
“cigar” includes
(a) a cigarillo or cheroot; and
(b) any roll or tubular construction intended for smoking that consists of a filler composed of pieces of natural or reconstituted leaf tobacco, a binder of natural or reconstituted leaf tobacco in which the filler is wrapped, and a wrapper of natural or reconstituted leaf tobacco.
“cigarette”
« cigarette »
“cigarette” includes any roll or tubular construction that contains tobacco and is intended for smoking, other than a bidi, cigar, kretek or tobacco stick.
“equivalent unit”
« unité équivalente »
“equivalent unit” means
(a) in respect of cigarette tobacco, a cigarette prepared in accordance with the method set out in the Canadian General Standards Board standard CAN/CGSB-176.1-92, entitled Preparation of Cigarettes from Cigarette Tobacco for Testing, dated December 1992; and
(b) in respect of leaf tobacco, a cigarette prepared in accordance with Official Method T-401, entitled Preparation of cigarettes from packaged leaf tobacco for testing, prepared by the Department of Health, dated December 31, 1999.
“health information”
« information de santé »
“health information” means the information set out in Part 4 of the source document.
“health warning”
« mise en garde »
“health warning” means
(a) in respect of cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, kreteks, leaf tobacco and tobacco sticks, the warnings that are set out in Part 1 of the source document;
(b) in respect of pipe tobacco, other than pipe tobacco described in subsection 6(1), the warnings that are set out in Part 2 of the source document; and
(c) in respect of pipe tobacco and cigars described in section 6, the warnings that are set out in Part 3 of the source document.
“kit”
« trousse »
“kit” means a package that includes any of the following tobacco products together with another tobacco product, which products are intended to be assembled by a consumer for their use:
(a) cigarettes;
(b) cigarette tobacco;
(c) leaf tobacco;
(d) cigars;
(e) pipe tobacco;
(f) tobacco sticks;
(g) chewing tobacco;
(h) snuff;
(i) kreteks; or
(j) bidis.
“mainstream smoke”
« fumée principale »
“mainstream smoke” means the smoke that is drawn through the port of a smoking machine when a tobacco product is placed in the machine and combusted.
“manufacturer”
« fabricant »
“manufacturer” includes an importer of tobacco products. It does not include a manufacturer that only packages or that only distributes tobacco products on behalf of another manufacturer.
“principal display surface”
« principale surface exposée »
“principal display surface”, means
(a) in the case of a package, carton or kit that has at least two equal sized sides or surfaces, other than the top and bottom, that may be displayed or visible under normal or customary conditions of sale or use, the area of each of two of those sides or surfaces, including the sides of any lid or cover if those sides are part of the sides of the package, carton or kit;
(b) in the case of a package, carton or kit that has sides of more than one size, the area of each half of the total area of its largest side;
(c) in the case of a package, carton or kit that has a lid or flap that is the part of the package, carton or kit displayed or visible under normal or customary conditions of sale or use, the area of each half of the total area of the top surface of the lid or flap; and
(d) in the case of a package, carton or kit that does not have a particular side or surface that is predominantly displayed or visible under normal or customary conditions of sale or use, any two portions that each occupy 40% of the total surface area of the package, carton or kit and that can be displayed or visible under normal or customary conditions of sale or use, excluding, where applicable, the top surface of any lid, but including the side of the lid if the side is a part of the side of the package, carton or kit.