7. The Governor in Council may make regulations

• (a) establishing standards for tobacco products, including prescribing the amounts of substances that may be contained in the product or its emissions;

• (b) respecting test methods, including methods to assess conformity with the standards;

• (c) prescribing information that manufacturers must submit to the Minister about tobacco products and their emissions, including sales data and information on market research, product composition, ingredients, health effects, hazardous properties and brand elements;

• (c.1) prescribing information that manufacturers must submit to the Minister about research and development related to tobacco products and their emissions, including information on market research, product composition, ingredients, health effects, hazardous properties and brand elements;

• (c.2) respecting requests for supplementary information under subsection 6(2);

• (c.3) respecting the prohibition under section 6.1, including providing for the suspension of the manufacture or sale of a tobacco product;

• (d) prescribing the means, including electronic means, by which the information referred to in paragraphs (c) to (c.2) may be submitted to the Minister;

• (d.1) prescribing anything that by this Part is to be prescribed; and

• (e) generally for carrying out the purposes of this Part.

• 7.1 (1) The Governor in Council may, by order, amend the schedule by adding, amending or deleting

  • (a) the name or description of an additive or tobacco product; or

  • (b) a reference to all tobacco products, with or without exceptions.

• (2) An additive or tobacco product may be described by reference to a document produced by a body or person other than the Minister, either as the document exists on a particular date or as it is amended from time to time.

• 8. (1) No person shall furnish a tobacco product to a young person in a public place or in a place to which the public reasonably has access.

• (2) A person shall not be found to have contravened subsection (1) if it is established that the person attempted to verify that the person was at least eighteen years of age by asking for and being shown documentation prescribed for the purposes of verifying age, and believed on reasonable grounds that the documentation was authentic.

9. Every retailer shall post, at retail, in the prescribed place and manner, signs in the prescribed form and with the prescribed content, that inform the public that the sale or giving of a tobacco product to a young person is prohibited by law, or that contain a prescribed health message, unless that retailer is exempted by the regulations from the requirement to post the signs.