Masked Name Regulations (SOR/94-261)

Regulations are current to 2012-05-14

Masked Name Regulations

SOR/94-261

CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999

Registration 1994-03-24

Regulations Respecting the Masking of Names of Substances to Prevent the Disclosure of Confidential Information

P.C. 1994-486 1994-03-24

His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of National Health and Welfare, pursuant to subsection 32(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection ActFootnote *, is pleased hereby to make the annexed Regulations respecting the masking of names of substances to prevent the disclosure of confidential information.

SHORT TITLE

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Masked Name Regulations.

INTERPRETATION

2. In these Regulations,

“Act”

“Act” means the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999; (Loi)

“chemical group”

“chemical group” means an arrangement of bonded atoms that is a portion of a molecule and that possesses a name consisting of a non-composite radical term established in accordance with the chemical nomenclature rules of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry or the Chemical Abstracts Service; (groupe chimique)

“locant”

“locant” means a numeral or Greek or Roman letter used in the name of a substance to indicate the positions of unsaturated bonds or attachments of chemical groups in a molecule; (symbole indicateur de position)

“masked name”

“masked name” means a name determined in accordance with section 3 that conceals the explicit chemical or biological name of a substance without misrepresenting the generic identity of the substance; (dénomination maquillée)

“multiplicative prefix”

“multiplicative prefix” means a prefix that describes the number of identical chemical groups in a chemical substance; (préfixe multiplicatif)

“non-descriptive term”

“non-descriptive term” means a term used in the masked name of a substance, in place of a distinctive element of the explicit chemical or biological name, that does not misrepresent the generic identity of the substance; (terme non descriptif)

“parent structure”

“parent structure” means the principal chain or ring system from which an explicit chemical name or part of an explicit chemical name is derived. (structure parentale)

  • SOR/2000-101, s. 6.

MASKING

  • 3. (1) For the purposes of sections 88 and 113 of the Act, the explicit chemical or biological name of a substance shall be masked by

    • (a) replacing a single distinctive element of the name with a non-descriptive term;

    • (b) replacing each of two or more distinctive elements of the name with a non-descriptive term;

    • (c) removing the locants; or

    • (d) removing the locants and replacing each of one or more other distinctive elements with a non-descriptive term.

  • (2) The number of distinctive elements in an explicit chemical or biological name that are replaced or removed in accordance with subsection (1) shall not exceed the minimum number necessary to ensure confidentiality.

  • (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the removal of a stereochemical indicator from an explicit chemical name does not constitute the removal of a distinctive element.

  • SOR/2000-101, s. 7.