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2 Incidents are classified, according to the subject of the exposure to the pest control product and the degree of severity of their effects, into the following categories:

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• (d) an incident whose effect is residues in food, when a pest control product or one of its components or derivatives is detected in food in an amount that would result in the sale of the food being prohibited under section 4 of the Food and Drugs Act;

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Marginal note:Time limit — table

• 14 (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (4), every registrant and applicant the first letter or number of whose name is set out in column 1 of the table to this subsection must file the incident reports described in section 13 and the annual summary described in section 15 within two months after the end of the reporting period set out in column 2.

• Marginal note:Name change

  (2) If a registrant or an applicant changes their name after having filed a first incident report described in section 13 or a first annual summary described in section 15, the time limit for filing subsequent reports and summaries under those sections remains the time first established in accordance with subsection (1).

• Marginal note:Amalgamation

  (3) If two or more registrants or applicants amalgamate after one of them has filed a first incident report described in section 13 or a first annual summary described in section 15, the time limit for the amalgamated registrant or applicant filing subsequent reports and summaries under those sections is the earliest of their time limits first established in accordance with subsection (1).

• Marginal note:No longer a registrant

  (3.1) If a registrant ceases for any reason to be the registrant of a particular pest control product, they must file the incident reports described in section 13 and the annual summary described in section 15, with respect to all information that they receive about that product before the day on which they cease to be the registrant, within one of the following time limits:

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• Marginal note:First report and summary

  (4) The first incident report described in section 13 and the first annual summary described in section 15 that are filed in accordance with subsection (1) may be for a reporting period shorter than 12 months.

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Marginal note:No longer a registrant

• 14 (1) If a registrant ceases for any reason to be the registrant of a particular pest control product, they must provide the incident reports referred to in sections 10 to 12 and the annual summary referred to in section 15, in respect of any information that they receive about that product before the day on which they cease to be the registrant, either:

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• Marginal note:Shorter reporting period

  (2) If a registrant ceases to be the registrant of a particular pest control product before the end of the reporting period applicable to the information that will be the subject of the incident reports referred to in section 12 or the annual summary referred to in section 15, that reporting period is deemed to end on the day that the registrant ceases to be the registrant.

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Marginal note:Transitional period — shortened reporting period

13.1 A registrant or applicant who, during the year preceding the day on which this section comes into force, accumulates information in accordance with section 13 of these Regulations as they read immediately before that day must provide the incident reports referred to in that section for the portion of the applicable reporting period immediately preceding that day and must do so by February 28, 2022.

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Marginal note:Provision of annual summary

• 15 (1) A registrant must provide the Minister with an annual summary in respect of an active ingredient if

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  • (b) the active ingredient is implicated in at least 10 incidents of the type set out in paragraph (a), each of which relates to the same type of subject of exposure referred to in section 2, namely, a human, an animal or one set out in paragraphs 2(f) to (h).

• Marginal note:Definition of year

  (1.1) For the purposes of this section, the term year means a calendar year.

• (2) The annual summary must contain the following information:

  • (a) in respect of each incident referred to in paragraph (1)(b), the category of incident set out in section 2; and

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